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Dec 17, 2015
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FREEDOM
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Is liberty the perfect freedom of God’s children?
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Is it freedom?
The mentally ill may have liberty…
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‘A person is a slave of whatever overcomes him’
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What of his power to panic or not?
The phobic has liberty…
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Can he easily choose otherwise now?
He has liberty and he had a choice…
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Liberty may coexist with the internal alienations
of folly, ignorance or overwhelming passions which limit our freedom
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Self-determination is freedom
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The Hebrews were freed from slavery, yet, they ‘became slaves to things that…are not God’
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Was it the freedom of God’s children?
Nazis enjoyed liberty and self-determination…
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‘Everyone [with liberty and self-determination] who commits sin is a slave of sin’
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The freedom of God?
Lucifer was free and deliberate…
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Self-determination may coexist with the
alienation of sin which leads to misery and
death
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‘Do not use freedom [liberty and self-
determination] as a pretext for evil’
Saint Paul
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Virtue is freedom
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The freedom of God?
‘This is my commandment: love one another as I love you … I no longer call you slaves’
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‘Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom’
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‘I am free … I have made myself a slave to all ’
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‘The free person … is a slave of Christ’
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To be alienated is to be submitted to a power that harms our dignity, which is anything that is not God