Originally Posted by
SoulSister 
We can't be connected to power to resist alcohol, restored, yet still claim to be powerless over alcohol. We can't have it both ways.
Powerless means no power. God is power. Powerless is without God. No power to resist alcohol. No choice.
The idea that we are not in fit spiritual condition, not connected to God, or powerless, without God, is why we lose choice and drink again...is what I learned.
I'm not now or have ever been empowered to resist taking a drink. AA is not about resisting taking that next drink. There is no next drink in my sobriety. My choices have not been lost if I don't have God. Alcoholism has taken my free choice for alcohol away and this means simply means I can only drink as an alcoholic. I can't choose to drink as something else. I'll always have my alcoholism.
Being in a fit spiritual condition empowers me to live a spiritual life with my alcoholism in remission. It really has nothing to do with resisting alcohol. The alcohol problem has been removed.
This is what AA has taught me.