Analysis Of The Bondage Breaker By Nei Neil Anderson

In the book The Bondage Breaker the author begins to break down the root of what holds and keeps people in captivity. Breaking this hold is not only achievable, but needful in order to have a health spiritual life. Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. He explains that the reasons for so many roadblocks to spiritual growth, lies in the losing battle to “the darkness”. Throughout his book, Neil Anderson explains where the darkness enters our life, and how we hold on to it. Breaking the “bondage of negative thoughts, irrational feelings, and habitual sin” is the thrust of this book. …show more content…
This bondage has been categorized differently as from what we have seen in the Bible. The western culture has redefined what holds many in bondage as mental illness and psychological abnormalities. Changing the language of spiritual bondage, often changes the approach to how we view spiritual bondage today. Some examples given by Anderson are, “What the early church called demonic activity we now understand to be mental illness”, and “Some problems are psychological and some are spiritual.” (Anderson 2000) Approaching spiritual bondage, affects how it is treated. When defined as psychological, we treat this bondage as a mental illness, with drugs and medication. Spiritual bondage needs to be treated with biblical remedies. Neil Anderson believes we need to work somewhere in the middle of these two