To fight an “act” as an abstract/”principle” called sin or to be delivered from a sentient being called Sin whose acts bear its name: that is the question.

It is easy to understand being separated from another creature by the grace of Jesus Christ. But to “stop doing” an “act” and to be imprisoned to “acts” that haven’t happened yet as a history of being makes the end of the addiction..well, complicated. How exactly is one to stop an act that is inevitable and after each act, one tries to gather strength from anywhere and anything to stop doing it in the future and yet those very tactics have proven futile?

In short, when sin is lyingly and ignorantly falsely defined as only an “act” done in ‘free will’ ( as if free will existed and as if the ‘free’ will of addicts is real and merely damaged) there is no true deliverance of the addict from the “acts” because the sentient spiritual creature Sin has not been dealt with and according to the false definition of sin, shouldn’t and can’t be dealt with.

Not only is the addict left with a lifestyle that is embarrassing for those who thump their chest about having a supposed free will, and who thus continually malign the addict to defend their concept of free will, but the true addiction to the lie of free will and the oneness with the sentient creature that is Sin compels them to braggadocio while they continually fail at stopping the behaviors. They are set upon by their so-called free willed companions to “take responsibility” not because their fellow captives to sin really care about them but because those accusations are in fact the addiction of the “free”. Psychology, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts’s’ jobs are to restore one to the overall lie of free will as is the job of much of what is called pastoral counseling: they are guards to ensure the addicted one or the troubled one never leaves the reservation/open prison of the lie of free will and non-creating speech by reminding them of its more pleasant aspects in the past as an appeal to the future. They always find the addiction as spirit is still with them while they are forced to merely speak positive sounding words like “I took responsibility”. That is why, in a nod to the truth, but as if there were no alternative to being sent back to the lie of free will by its border guards a common saying of a “recovered/rehabed” addict or drunk is “I’ll always be an addict/alcoholic” …”because I have free will”. Big money in that game.

Human speech itself, as non-creating speech has no power to deliver or create, is itself part of Sin and can do no other than attack those who prove its claims of free will are a farse.

New birth in Jesus Christ is the only solution by hearing the Word of God as is easily attested to by the reality that the more popular the lie of free will becomes in a society, the more addictions grow because there is no new birth in Christ by the will of man.

Isaiah 48:3-11  I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly, and they came to pass. 

Isa 48:4  Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; 

Isa 48:5  I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them. 

Isa 48:6  Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them. 

Isa 48:7  They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them. 

Isa 48:8  Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb. 

Isa 48:9  For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off. 

Isa 48:10  Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction. 

Isa 48:11  For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another. 

In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen