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Cured! Proven Help for Alcoholics and Addicts
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Cured! Proven Help for Alcoholics and Addicts

Yes. Alcoholics and addicts can be, have been, and will be cured and healed of their afflictions if they follow the principles and practices of the early A.A. fellowship. The ingredients of yesteryear are available today. They are simple. They were widely reported. And they gave rise to the important world-wide A.A. fellowship of today. Many still cling to the idea that they are always "in recovery" or that they can never call themselves "recovered" or that the idea of cure in conflict with A.A. principles. To be sure, the basic text of A.A. contains a couple of phrases which have become dictum--once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic; and there is no cure for alcoholism. But that is not what the founders of the program said or believed. The first three AAs all declared in writing that they had been cured. So did the first forty successful pioneers. So did newspaper articles for a decade. This book does argue with the negative. It proves the positive and points to the documentation of the cures. It opens the door to freedom for those who sit in meetings, abstain from drink, and live in fear that they may relapse. The freedom comes from God. This book details the proof, explains the answer, and claims nothing but the power of God--not meetings, not steps, not books, not pharmaceuticals, not therapy, not treatment, not diet, and probably "no human power" as the cure. There is no rejection of other helps. There is simply a clear way out, the way of the pioneers, that is detailed for those who choose God as their helper, their strength, their guide, and their needed power to resist temptation, abstain, and move toward the abundant life that the Bible promised those who followed Jesus Christ.

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Product Details:
Author: Dick B.
Paperback: 197 pages
Publisher: Paradise Research Publications
Publication Date: December 29, 2005
Language: English
ISBN: 1885803966
Package Length: 8.8 inches
Package Width: 6.0 inches
Package Height: 0.4 inches
Package Weight: 0.25 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 3 reviews
 
 

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5" ALL WISE RIGHT AND EXACT "  Oct 01, 2008
I CANNOT EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION FOR YOUR DILIGENCE AND CONCERN FOR THE TRUTH AND ALL TRUE SEEKERS OF KNOWLEDGE IN AND OUT OF THE ROOMS OF A/A-N/A . I HAVE BEEN DELIVERED FROM ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUGS AND I AM AN ADDICTIONS COUNSELOR IN THE NATIONS CAPITAL TEACHING "THE PURE MILK " TO THE LOST BUT NOW FOUND CHILDREN OF GOD AND YOUR DOCUMENTATION HAS STRENGHENED MT TESTIMONY AND CLINCAL FOUNDATION. I THANK ALMIGHTY GOD FOR FELLOW SERVANTS SUCH AS YOUR SELF !!! KEEP FIGHTING BROTHER !!

5Curing a Marine: I want to be cured, not perpetually sick  Apr 17, 2008
Dick B. has written two major books on the cure of alcoholism. This is the cure that every single early A.A. proclaimed. His later book is When Early AAs Were Cured and Why. It's a what they did, and how to do it today book. And it's a pip. But the introduction to the idea, the refutation of perpetual sickness, and the historical backdrop of the real, early A.A. Christian fellowship, Bible ideas, cures, and message carrying will be found in this book. It carefully explores the obvious meaning of cure. It carefully explores what the Bible has to say about cure. It carefully reviews the history of cures through the ages, as well as the specific cures of alcoholism before, during, and after A.A.'s founding. And it wowed me! I'm a Marine vet, and I looked for success, not failure, health, not sickness, victory, not defeat. And I find it with my relationship with God and His son Jesus Christ. I tired of hearing alcoholics and addicts dampened in their enthusiasm for sobriety and recovery by the doleful statements that there is no cure for alcoholism. It rankled me as a fighter and vet. What it really did for me was to show me the depth of believing, study, obedience, and love for God that enabled the Akron A.A. pioneer Christian fellowship people to be cured. And they said so. Hurrah for this positive note.

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5The Power that overcomes the Powerless Paranoia  Nov 18, 2006
Yes. Alcoholics can be cured. And A.A. Pioneers said so.
Here's the book where Dick first began cutting the thread between Bill Wilson's 'powerless' alcoholic and A.A.'s original reliance on the power of God for a cure. And such a statement still raises the hackles of the died-in-the-wool fanciers of old, weak, shop-worn 'sick forever' ideas that crept into A.A. and 12 Step groups with the failures of therapists, the failures of treatment programs, and the rim-running by unbelievers who feel it's more important to be untainted by religion than to confess that God can, did, and does heal alcoholics. Dick's book shows the origin of the fallacy of no cure for alcoholics. The idea didn't come from God or the Great Physician Jesus Christ. It didn't come from the Good Book. It didn't come from the early A.A. Christian Fellowship program developed in 1935. It came when the Devil introduced the effectiveness of temptation over the effective fervent prayer of righteous men. Take a look at the Book of James, the early A.A. favorite. Read the first chapter on temptation. Read the fourth chapter 4:7 on submitting yourself to God, resisting the devil, and watching him flee. Read Chapter Five on the effectiveness of prayer--the chapter that guided the pioneers in their surrenders to Christ and their believing. Stick to the impotence of God if you want to remain sick. Look to the cures by God if you want to get well. And that's what the pioneers did.

Also recommended: God and Alcoholism, by Dick B. When Early AAs Were Cured and Why, by Dick B. The James Club and the Original A.A. Program's Absolute Essentials, by Dick B. A New Way Out, by Dick B.; A New Way In, by Dick B.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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