The Bible repeatedly warns against trusting in anything or anyone other than the one true God. To do so is the essence of idolatry. The 12-Step programs do not teach a person to trust in God in the biblical sense. Instead, people transfer their "addictions" to the 12-Step program.
Also, the 12-Step programs become a substitute for biblical spirituality. They replace biblical terms with psychological ones (drunkenness is called alcoholism, a disease; enslavement to sin is called addiction; sin is called sickness or disease; repentance becomes recovery). This is not a small quibble. Words express truth or error. The biblical terms are important. We don't repent of sickness; we recover. We don't recover from sin; we repent.
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