Who is Bill Wilson?
Until the year 1935, Bill Wilson was one of many failed businessmen who found solace in excessive alcohol consumption. Wilson was said to have been too intoxicated to graduate from law school, eventually settling for a career in the speculative and volatile world of stock trading and speculation. The early days of his marriage to Lois Wilson were filled with infidelities and desperate measures to procure cheap bathtub gin or rotgut whiskey during the Prohibition era. Although Bill Wilson made several half-hearted attempts to stop drinking, it was not until he entered a controversial rehabilitation program that he became truly sober. Wilson considered this stint in rehab to be a spiritual reawakening, the equivalent of a Damascus road experience for a confirmed alcoholic. Through personal and professional association with other recovering alcoholic businessmen, Bill Wilson co-founded the organization known as Alcoholics Anonymous or AA. Although Wilson himself was from New York, the fir
Did he fear the Lord? Without that he did not even have the beginning of wisdom! Many Christians have the idea that they can use a man-made system replete with pagan and occultic content and simply say that Jesus is the “Higher Power.” Since when did the Lord ever bless or borrow from any pagan system or religion, science falsely so called, or principles of this world to put his seal of approval on it? This is another Jesus….a conjured Jesus. Besides, Jesus is not a string of principles we follow, he is a person we follow. He is not a higher power. He is the highest! Glory to God in the Highest! And he is all powerful!! Carl Jung, whom Bill Wilson admired so much, also believed in an Aryan Jesus. Do you have any idea what this “another Jesus” is that Paul would have said that Carl Jung follows? The answer is that Carl Jung’s (another Jesus) ideas about Jesus were derived from Aryan pagan mythology. Yet they keep saying “but this has helped me and so many other people.” But this is th
