Marky,
Point was , how do you , as a non-believer, know who is a true believer, not how do you know they have a disease?
If we call alcoholism a disease, that is fine with me. People certainly need help for it. I think I stop short of saying that alcoholism ""strikes people"" , that inference implies no control. IMO -Lou Gehrigs Disease, Muscular Dystrophy, things like that are more what I would say "strike" people.
I could use myself as an example. I can whine and moan about why I have no lungs,(don't worry RJ Reynolds, I won't sue you. :o), but fact is, I chose to smoke for 20 years, so that is just about how much I have shortened my life, if God chooses not to provide new lungs. Now do I say lung disease "struck" me? I would more be inclined to say I am "self inflicted". Still a disease, mind you, but I was a big cause of it's progression.
My view to alcoholism, is same as my view on my lungs. I agree with Chris that drink to excess is sin, and by that sin, the disease of alcoholism rears it's head. I smoked enough to "hook" me , the habit was hard to break, I would not have quit probably if I could both breathed and smoked. But IMO, I sinned by this habit, and I have been forgiven this sin, God helped me break the habit,and the sin is no longer remembered by my Father in heaven, but I still carry the consequences of it. And if I am not careful, I could still fall back into the snare of the sin.
Anyway if somone thinks I am wrong, now is the time to tell me why.
Rev. 5:13
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