Quaranteen

There are many addictions some people have.

The addictions occur and are sustained because God-given desires of basically and puritanically good but duressed persons are misdirected and misappropriated by wicked persons around them with corresponding immoral or immodest misbehaviors of nefarious persons who in various ways legalistically, frigidly, and sadistically deprive basically good persons causing those good persons to errantly mis-fulfill those desires.....or addictions occur and are sustained by basically evil persons also embedded with God-given desires who themselves have deliberately and deceitfully chosen to attempt to fulfil those desires sinfully, with or without input from other similarly-sinful persons.

Sometimes such wayward addictiveness is subtle, as when "pastor" M. in his evening church sermons preached that Old-Testament Jacob was intrinsically an illegally-polygamous, enemies-frightened, rescued-by-forgivingly-gracious-Esau, "pathetic jerk" to whom God was constantly calling back to compliance [yet isn't it strange to NIV-quoting Morrell that Jacob (i.e. Israel) would not let God go in contrast to birthright-despising Canaanite-wife-acquiring Esau and rapist/greedy Shechemites, but instead clung to God in faith and willingly constructed respectful altars to the LORD]. Such ecclesiastical antisemitism potentially-non-stupid Marrs and Mohr and Morrell reveal is quite evident, and - though popular amongst many educrat pseudo-intellectuals - is repulsive and obnoxious.

Acts 20:30 ..... and from among your own selves will arise men speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

Why should the Bible NOT generally be taken literally? Most everything else is taken literally in common, everyday, literary-concordant [although-sometimes-metaphorical/allegorical "step-on-the-gas/it-was-a-blast"] society.

What would the reader think about a person who:

(1) flushes the toilet when asked to turn on the porch light, with the excuse: "Oh, I presumed that you were talking figuratively and not literally."
(2) brings to a customer sitting at a restaurant table oatmeal instead of the steak sandwich the customer ordered, giving the irrationalization: "Hey, I thought that you were being allegorical."
(3) speeds around a flashing-red-lights bus and then informs an enraged police officer that: "I figured that the Stop-For-Flashing-Red-Lights sign on the back of the bus was to be taken as a figurative metaphor and meant the opposite of what it says."

What is the best way to cure a person addicted to getting drunk with wine or narcotics, in view of the Scriptural directives:

Genesis 14:18 And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was priest of God Most High.

Genesis 27:28 May God give you of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and plenty of grain and wine.
Genesis 27:37 Isaac answered Esau, "Hey, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained him. What then can I do for you, my son?"

Psalm 104:14 You do cause the grass to grow for the cattle, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food from the earth,
Psalm 104:15 and wine to gladden [it does NOT say nor mean intoxicating, now does it?] the heart of man, oil to make his face shine, and bread to strengthen man's heart.

First Timothy 5:23 No longer drink only water, but use a little wine for the sake of your stomach and your frequent ailments.

Certainly one does not de-addict a someone addicted to medically-beneficially small amounts of liquor by forcing that person to become and be a teetotaler. [That said, this webpage author can see absolutely nothing beneficial about getting addictively intoxicated with narcotics (marijuana, LSD, cocaine, heroin, meth, etc.) nor addicted to tobacco products (cigarette, cigars, chewing snuff, and so on].

Vital to un-addicting a drunkard is to firmly and forcefully (if necessary) reiterate the word little in the First Timothy 5:23 quotation above, plus reminding him or her of the problems and warnings associated with not Scripture per se (as Morrell might submit by reviling and blaming the Text itself) but rather what Scripture refers to in:

Genesis 19:32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father."
33 So they made their father drink wine that night; and the first-born went in, and lay with her father; he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
34 And on the next day, the first-born said to the younger, "Hey, I lay last night with my father; let us make him drink wine tonight also; then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring through our father."
35 So they made their father drink wine that night also; and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose.

Numbers 6:2 "Say to the people of Israel, When either a man or a woman makes a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself to the LORD,
3 he shall separate himself from wine and strong drink; he shall drink no vinegar made from wine or strong drink, and shall not drink any juice of grapes or eat grapes, fresh or dried.
4 All the days of his separation he shall eat nothing that is produced by the grapevine, not even the seeds or the skins.
5 "All the days of his vow of separation no razor shall come upon his head; until the time is completed for which he separates himself to the LORD, he shall be holy; he shall let the locks of hair of his head grow long.

Numbers 5:18 And the priest shall set the woman [suspected of committing adultery] before the LORD, and unbind the hair of the woman's head, and place in her hands the cereal offering of remembrance, which is the cereal offering of jealousy. And in his hand the priest shall have the water of bitterness that brings the curse.

Deut 32:42 (RSV) I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh--with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the long-haired heads of the enemy.'

Song of Solomon 7:5 Your head [my bride, who I alone privately enjoy in the covert of the cliff] crowns you like Carmel, and your flowing locks [i.e. lovely mopheadedness] are like purple; a king is held captive in the tresses [and we are talking non-pornographic maritally-legitimate non-public-view erotic and sensual gratification here].

First Corinthians 11:13 Judge for yourselves; is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?
14 Does not nature itself teach you that for a man to wear long hair is degrading to him,
15 but if a woman has long hair, it is her pride? For her hair is given to her for a covering.
16 If any one is disposed to be contentious, we recognize no such practice [of allowing a woman to regard her loose long hair as equivalent to a prayer veil or covering], nor do the churches of God.

Judges 13:14 She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe."

First Samuel 1:14 And Eli said to her, "How long will you be drunken? Put away your wine from you."

First Samuel 25:37 And in the morning, when the wine had gone out of Nabal, his wife told him these things, and his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.

Esther 5:6 And as they were drinking wine [And does it state here that they were getting drunk, and does the king's request to Esther reveal that?], the king said to Esther, "What is your petition? It shall be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of my kingdom, it shall be fulfilled."

Psalm 78:65 Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a strong man shouting because of wine.

Proverbs 20:1 Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler (i.e. brawling and mocking are frequently caused by the over-consumptive misuse against both strong drink and wine); and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
Prov 31:4 It is not for kings, Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine, or for rulers to desire strong drink;
Prov 31:5 lest they drink and forget what has been decreed, and pervert the rights of all the afflicted.
Prov 31:6 Give strong drink to him who is perishing, and wine to those in bitter distress;

Ecclesiastes 2:3 (NOT Ecclesiasticus!) I searched with my mind how to cheer my body with wine--my mind still guiding me with wisdom--and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under heaven during the few days of their life.
Eccl 9:7 Go, eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already approved what you do.
Eccl 10:19 Bread is made for laughter, and wine gladdens life, and money answers everything.

Song 1:2 Oh that you would [non-pornographically] kiss me with the kisses of your mouth! For your love is better than wine,
Song 5:1 I [non-pronographically, non-fornicatively] come to my garden, my sister, my bride, I gather my myrrh with my spice, I eat my honeycomb with my honey, I drink my wine with my milk. Eat, [similarly-married-to-your-own-spouse] friends, and drink: drink deeply, lovers [not lusters]!
Song 7:2 Your [non-public-strip-joint/nude-danceress/bar] navel is a rounded bowl that never lacks mixed wine. Your [non-internet-porn-pics/vids] belly is a heap of wheat, encircled with lilies.
Song 7:9 and your kisses like the best wine that goes down smoothly, gliding over lips and teeth.
Song 8:2 I would lead you and bring you into the house of my mother, and into the chamber of her who (and not "that") conceived me. I would give you "spiced wine" to drink, the juice of my "pomegranates."

Isaiah 1:22 Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water.
Isa 5:11 Woe to those who rise early in the morning, that they may run after strong drink, who delay late into the evening till wine inflames them!
Isa 5:22 Woe to those who are heroes at drinking wine, and valiant men in mixing strong drink,
23 who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!
24 Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel (though Mr Morrell might like to forget that Israel was one and the same as Jacob).

Isa 28:1 Woe to the proud crown of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of its glorious beauty, which is on the head of the rich valley of those overcome with wine!
Isa 28:7 These also reel with wine and stagger with strong drink; the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink, they are confused with wine, they stagger with strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in giving judgment.
Isa 29:9 Stupefy yourselves and be in a stupor, blind yourselves and be blind! Be drunk, but not with wine; stagger, but not with strong drink!

Isa 51:21 Therefore hear this, you who are afflicted, who are drunk, but not with wine [but perhaps narcotics]:
22 Thus says your Lord, the LORD, your God who pleads the cause of his people: "Hey, I have taken from your hand the cup of staggering; the bowl of my wrath you shall drink no more;

Jeremiah 23:9 Concerning (and not "regarding") the prophets: My heart is broken within me, all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, like a man overcome by wine, because of the LORD and because of his holy words.

Joel 1:5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it is cut off from your mouth.

Amos 2:12 "But you made the Nazirites drink wine, and commanded the prophets, saying, 'You shall not prophesy.'
Am 5:11 Therefore because you trample upon the poor and take from him exactions of wheat, you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink their wine [especially the forbidden-to-ingest-wine Nazirites].

Am 9:14 I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine, and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.

Micah 2:11 If a man should go about and utter wind and lies, saying, "I will preach to you of wine and strong drink," he would be the preacher for this people!

Matthew 9:17 Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; if it is, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved."

Mark 2:22 And no one puts new wine [it does not state nor mean grape juice now, does it?] into old wineskins; if he does, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but new wine is for fresh skins."

Luke 5:38 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.
Luke 5:39 And no one after drinking old wine desires new; for he says, 'The old is good.'"
Luke 7:33 For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine; and you say, 'He has a demon.'
Luke 7:34 The Son of man has come eating and drinking [water only, and no wine? C'mon now!] ; and you say, 'Hey, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!'

John 2:9 When the steward of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the steward of the feast called the bridegroom
John 2:10 and said to him, "Every man serves the good wine first; and when men have drunk freely, then the poor wine; but you have kept the good wine until now."
John 4:46 So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where He had made the water wine [though no mention is made of making cigarettes, snuff, nor narcotics].....

Acts 2:13 But others mocking said, "They are filled with new wine."

Romans 14:21 it is right not to eat meat [including wieners, sausages, hamburger, and maybe fish] or drink wine {including grape juice] or do anything that makes your brother stumble.

Ephesians 5:18 And do not get drunk with "wine" [or is it supposed to figuratively/allegorically/symbolically instead mean: grape juice?"], for that is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit....

First Timothy 3:8 Deacons likewise must be serious, not double-tongued, not addicted to much wine [and what part of 'much' does the reader and/or everyone else not understand?], not greedy for gain...

So how does one break addiction to porn and what causes such, which is usually is the non-solicited and sexually-harassive shenanigans of inferior-gender (see First Peter 3:7) trying to gain power over men in chauvenistic feminist sexist insubordination by mis-attracting them not with submissive and chaste personality but instead imposing selfishly-egocentric and maliciously-competitive body-parts show-off exhibitionism?

It takes a multi-stage plan:

(1) Study the Bible about everything God has to Scripturally state about human-sexuality needs, desires, expression - both positive and negative.
(2) Accomodate to what the Bible states about the info in Item #1 stated previously.
(3) Obey the Genesis chapter 1 command to sexually "Multiply" in ways described as in the Song of Solomon, by being compliant with the Lord's command through Saint Paul in First Corinthians 7:1-5 to get a spouse and have let them have sex with that spouse by fulfilling KJV's First Timothy 5:14 for "younger women (no mention of the Greek word for "widows" [Gr. ch(e)ras] there) to marry and bear children.
(4) Obey the primal command to not eat of the publicly-mopheaded or sleeveslessly naked-armed nor slackslessly legs-bared-with-warm-weather-shorts nor exposing parts of the bare feet with soxlessness in warm weather Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.....nor pursuing consequentially-aroused deviancy of searching for and lusting at internet or other-screen-or-print-media pornographic pics or vids.....in godly response to:

First Peter 4:3 Let the time that is past suffice for doing what the Gentiles like to do, living in [immodestly-and-indecently misdressed in mixed-gender general-public view with loose-long-haired mopheadedness or sleeveslessness or slackslessness or soxlessness] licentiousness, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless [TV-and-internet-or-magazine porno-pics/vids] idolatry.

Genesis 35:4 So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that they had, and the [homo-rebellious] rings that were in their [left] ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem.

Quaranteening such away is one necessary procedure, and when the indecency cannot be quaranteened, then:

Proverbs 14:7 Leave the presence of a [publicly-mopheaded/sleevesless/slacksless/soxless] fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge.

Proverbs 4:15 Avoid it; do not go on it; turn away from it and pass on.

Isaiah 26:20 Come, my people, enter your chambers, and shut your doors behind you; hide yourselves for a little while until the wrath is past.

Romans 16:17 I appeal to you, brethren, to take note of those [roaming around with god-tolerantly-forgives-everyone-in-his-unconditional-love apostate heretics themselves flaunting and/or condoning general-public mopheadedness or sleeveslessness or slackslessness or soxlessness] who create dissensions and difficulties, in opposition to the doctrine which you have been taught; avoid them.

Second Corinthians 6:14 Do not be mismated with [mopheaded/sleevesless/slacksless/soxless-practicing-or-espousing] disbelievers. For what partnership have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?

Second Timothy 3:5 .....[such perverts and pervertesses who are] holding the form of [guttermind-artists-concocting-paintings-and-pics-of-bare-feet-in-sandals pseudo-biblical pseudo-sunday-school porn] religion but denying the power of it. Avoid such people.