Recently, I read a post that was “pretty good” (I place the quotations around it for a caveat). On top of that I have been reading Neil Anderson’s Victory over Darkness. In it he writes two rather good things:
- “A good theology is indispensable prerequisite to a good psychology.” -Neil Anderson, Victory over Darkness, 11.
- “Knowing God is indispensable to maturity and freedom.” -Neil Anderson, Victory over Darkness, 12.
This is quite true, and the key is that “God” is not just any God or higher power (a phrase that I absolutely abhor!). God here is the Triune God of the Christian Bible. It is the Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Without a knowledge of the one and only true God, as proclaimed by Paul in Acts 17 who explained the Unknown God, then we are destined to destruction. Not only this, we need to believe that God is who He says He is. And this is my struggle. I have two views of God: my intellectual view and my emotional view (see my blog posts here, here, here, here, here, here, here). This is where I am needing to spend my time reconciling the two…really bringing my emotional view in check with my intellectual, theological knowledge of God. It’s tantamount to putting hands and feet on true theology.
Having said that, the blog post that I read failed on this one instance. However, here is what he said that was good:
In the course of my recent search for freedom from pornography and other sexual addictions and heavily rooted in the Candeo program I am engaged in, I’ve seen realized the absolute necessity to correctly understand who I am and converserly [sic], who I am NOT.
Falling in the mud doesn’t make one mud, nor does even willfully playing in the mud while having an understanding of the consequences lead to a transformation of a man back into the elements originally utilized to form his body. I am NOT my addictions.
It was truly refreshing to hear the strong refuting in the Candeo program of the “Once and addict, always an addict
