We were just talking about a;coholism and how it is a disease. I was thinking that calling it a disease would negate accountability for actions. i asked my teacher and she said there is a dopamine malfunction with these people and they seem to be genetically predisposed to cravings and addictions. One is too much and 100 is not enough. initailly i was skeptical about calling alcoholism a disease, but it acts the same way. At one point there is no disease and they are healthy, then they have a precipitous cause, then this cause leads to a disease process or malfunction of normal physiology. Just like a kid with Lupus might have a viral infection which precipitates a systemic pathophysiology of the immune system.
Where does God fit into this? Is alcoholism - a treasuring and valuing of a lesser joy - really a disease which a person cannot help? Maybe our DNA is subject to futility just as our minds are darkened. Perhaps this is an example of God giving a person over to a depraved mind because he worships and serves the created being and not God. Whichever is the case, disease or not, Christ only can redeem from our choices and restore the years the locusts have eaten. Jesus is the answer, i am convinced, to the redemption of all our ills.
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I believe the disease is sin. Here's the thing...we are ALL alcholics at birth. Craving something lesser to satisfy that deep, driving urge. It's like a cancer that threatens to eat you up unless you feed it right away. Thus, whether it's alcohol or something else, we all seem to behave that way at some point in our ruined lives. As Christ's heirs now, we are glorious ruins, waiting til that day when we will be fully restored! Love you.
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