The power of addiction cannot be adequately appraised until addiction is understood as a misguided enactment of our quest for right relationship with God.Kent Dunnington. Addiction and Virtue: Beyond the Models of Disease and Choice (Strategic Initiatives in Evangelical Theology) (Kindle Locations 81-82). Kindle Edition.
This brick house of a statement is found in the preface of this book that I have only just started reading. Obviously the topic is of personal interest for me, being both Christian and Addict. If my addictive behaviors are simply sinful choices....then I am just a bad person who chooses to sin continuously. But if they are an 'addiction', something that I am afflicted with, then perhaps I have no choice in the matter - or if I do have a choice it is so unfair a fight as to make Don Quixote seem sane in believing he can joust a windmill.
As Dunnigton suggests, the truth lies closer to the middle. It looks like a pretty technical read, but its high time I pursued more than just sugar-coated recovery and begun to expose the insides to the light of truth.
