The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous poses a more fundamental proposition: “either God is everything or else He is nothing. God either is, or He isn’t.”1 There is no middle ground, no grey area where we might fudge any of it. It’s one or the other, and it’s our choice. Freedom of choice is one of God’s most precious gifts to us, given from the very beginning, in the Garden of Eden. God created us, male and female, in his own image; he placed us in a world surrounded by abundance; he gave us dominion