What does the bible say about addiction and is it true?

The bible identifies addicted people as the mass majority and compares them to someone who is asleep or unconscious. It continues to suggest that the nature of addiction requires secrecy and can only be done in hiding, among negative company and dark spaces. For one to be free of addiction, they have to be in the light.

Breaking free from addiction requires a great deal of self-belief which seems to suggest that people who suffer from addiction also have a negative self-image. It takes a whole lot of love, faith, and hope to avoid any kind of addition, and even much more of that to break away.

In a letter to the Thessalonians, Paul writes: “So then, let us not be like others, who are asleep, but let us be awake and sober. For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk, get drunk at night. But since we belong to the day, let us be sober, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.”