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Freedom
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Listening to some people's opinions lately, we seem to believe that there should be no law over us, we should be treated as "freed citizens" left to our own devices, to do and say what we please, whenever we please. But if another "freed citizen" offends us, THEIR freedom is no longer valid because it encroached on ours. There is no such thing as complete freedom when dwelling with other human beings.

How can one human make you free? They empower your freedom as long as you are under thier law as if they're saying, "I say you are free. You can be free with me as long as you live the way that I say is right." Don't misunderstand me, I do believe that humans need the law. But also understand that we will never be truly free unless we are not under the law. Only freedom that is from God is true freedom because He grants us the right to live outside the law. I think a lot of people miss that wonderful blessing and are scared to explore this true freedom because they don't understand it. But I don't think we can ever understand it fully because it's not of "us", it's not worldly thinking. It's a divine sanction.

Comments:

Trevor Posts: i believe that our freedom as christians has nothing to do with the law. i believe our freedom comes from a spiritual emancipation that we have recieved through Christ. therefore, no law can touch that. no human government can encroach upon that.

now, when it comes to the US Constitution, i believe that law is necessary, but very subjective at times. there are some laws that keep us safe from eachother that are sort of "dual-wielded", that is, they are sanctioned by God and by the government (aka - murder laws).

also, as a christian, i find that my personal convictions often "encroach" on not only other religions, but also my fellow christians. so how are we to live under spiritual law alone when the only spiritual law we have anymore is that which we interpret ourselves. can we trust eachother to come to agreement on a set of spiritualy ordained law when we belong to many different religions and even those of us of the same religion differ in oppinon? i don't believe so.

so where is the peace? government. someone has to keep the peace. i believe that governments are, generaly speaking, ordained by God, whether they admit it or not and that the purpose they serve is to keep the peace on earth across religious and cultural lines. it's apparent that they do more than just keep the peace, but i would like to point out that a "christian" or "muslim" or "jewish" government will not and cannot work becuase at least one, if not many, would be discriminated against on the basis of religion, and that's not fair. in fact, it's not what we as christians are called to do.

maybe i'm just rambling. good post. got me thinking.

Carla responds: I guess what I am saying is that there is no real earthly freedom given to us by others (such as freedom under the law) because it all comes down to whom we are controlled by. Only if we are ultimately controlled by God can we be really free. I'll reply more to this later, I cant think right now.