The Biblical Link to Addictions
An Understandable Guide through the Spiritual, Emotional and Psychological Madness of Addiction
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I have frequently seen three common denominating conditions highlighted by an enormous number of struggling addicts coming into our safe therapeutic environment who are asked the following question: “What did the chemical bring into your life at the start of your using?” Many of them describe how they received feelings of Euphoria, Significance and Security. As we then investigate further and ask how they really felt about themselves and about their life prior to that first chemical intake, they very often start to cry. They slowly start to see how the chemical influence only ever really offered them a counterfeit opposite of how they really felt about themselves.
1. The antonym of Euphoria? – Dreary.
2. The antonym of Significance? – Unimportant.
3. The antonym of Security? – Lost
Key ingredients of an addiction.
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About the Book
The Biblical Link to Addictions stands in contrast to contemporary belief that addiction is a disease in need of treatment. This book demonstrates how addicted individuals are actually in a relationship with the deceptive influence of an addictive chemical. These individuals openly display ‘Adam and Eve’-like character traits, in that they make right sound wrong, wrong sound right, hide from the truth, fail to face up to personal responsibility for wrongs committed, blame someone else and eventually try to cry ‘the devil made me do it’. Charles Haddon Spurgeon once said, ‘the best way to understand man is to study God’. Colin Garnett has sensitively combined 15 years of destructive heroin addiction with 15 years of working with addicts and four years of Theological study at Moorlands Bible College in Dorset, England, to formulate the information in this book in order to help remove the majority of excuses and alibis that addicts use to stay sick. Reading this book will leave many suffering individuals and their families no option but to sense that there is hope and that there is a solution and to seek God in their pilgrimage of decay.
About the Author
Colin became a willing member of the drug and crime lifestyle of lower working class England. Spending many years in prisons and rehabs for heroin addiction, this highly intelligent ex-bomb disposal team member knows exactly how easy it is to become addicted and how difficult it is to break free.