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Dr. Townsend teaches on the spiritual and emotional roots and treatment of addiction, neuroscience research proves what the Scripture already says...
"They have lost all feeling, so they abandoned themselves to sensuality, practicing any kind of impurity and always greedy for more."
~Ephesians 4:19 (emphasis mine)
I can anticipate the response that is coming: "I know that all God's commands are spiritual, but I'm not. Isn't this also your experience?" Yes. I'm full of myself - after all, I've spent a long time in sin's prison. What I don't understand about myself is that I decide one way, but then I act another, doing things I absolutely despise. So if I can't be trusted to figure out what is best for myself and then do it, it becomes obvious that God's command is necessary. But I need something more! For if I know the law but still can't keep it, and if the power of sin within me keeps sabotaging my best intentions, I obviously need help! I realize that I don't have what it takes. I can will it, but I can't do it. I decide to do good, but I don't really do it; I decide not to do so bad, but then I do it anyway. My decisions, such as they are, don't result in actions. Something has gone wrong deep within me and gets the better of me every time."
~Romans 7:15-20 (MSG, emphasis mine)
"Motive in the human heart is like deep water, and a person who has understanding draws it out."
~Proverbs 20:5 (God's Word Translation)