IMO there is only one way out of addictions like pornography and it is step by step.
It starts with knowing Jesus Christ. But it doesn't end there. As the article shows, not much difference there as far as addictions like pornography go.
The key is the next step: KNOWING there is NO condemnation if you are God's child (Rom 8:1). The Bible says it, but we don't believe it because our conscience demands justice for sin. We must learn the gospel according to God's Word as revealed in the New Testament. Romans lays out the gospel for us, step by step. We are not under the old covenant of the law but under the new covenant of grace. The clincher is, "For sin has no dominion over you, for you are not under the law, but under grace" (Rom 6:14).
The answer and antidote for sin is not the law, but grace, as Romans 6:14 spells out. We need to understand the new covenant we are now under, where God promises, "Your sins and iniquities I will remember no more" (Hebrews 8:12, 10:17). But our conscience cries out, "Unjust, I have sinned, I am guilty and payment is required."
But we must learn the truth and power of the gospel: Jesus paid it all on the cross. His sacrifice was a perfect one-time sacrifice that made us perfect. Jesus did what the law could never do: fix us.
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereto perfect...Then said he, Lo, I come to do your will, O God. He takes away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. And every priest stands daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: but this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God; from henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified. (Heb 10:1,7-14).
Jesus said, "It is finished." He has done it all and to prove it, he rose from the dead and sat down at the right hand of God, because there is nothing more to be done. We must believe the gospel: that God loves us and is not mad at us. God's righteous wrath and judgment against our sins was exhausted on the body of his beloved son Jesus Christ. Jesus did what no man could ever do and because of his complete sacrifice, we have free access to God the Father and Jesus Christ who love us so deeply. And because we are no longer under the law (Rom 6:14) we are free from sin, guilt and condemnation, not by our righteous but by the GIFT of His righteousness (Rom 5:17). Knowing the truth will truly set you free (John 8:32).
I don’t know that I buy that...