Addictions - Secular view vs. Spiritual view

Cable said:

This is a great message by Tony Evans talking about the nature of addiction and how the world views it vs. how the Christian should view it.
I've always believed something like what he is preaching, as the secular view tends to make folks into victims of addiction.
This is a good reality check for believers.

Overcoming Emotional Strongholds

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One of my earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of my relatives, and not being able to. As I got older, I understood why. We had addiction in my family. And as I watched some of my other close relatives become addicts, I asked myself several questions, but one in particular seemed haunting and insistent: why does addiction so often run in families? Why does it seem to pass from mother to daughter, from father to son, as though it were some dark genetic twist?

I went on a long journey to find the answers to these questions – I describe it in my book ‘Chasing The Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs.’ My research was book-ended by two events that remind us why we need to urgently understand this.

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Risky Thicket said:

And a scientific view:

The rest here.

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