If God created our freedom, our freedom is of God. The best we can aspire to under such an assumption is to use this of God freedom be free for God.
Of God freedom is free will freedom—the freedom the choose between good and evil.
Of God freedom defines good as God’s law and evil as the rejection of this law. It is an imposed freedom. A necessary freedom. A natural freedom.
Put another way, of God freedom is determined freedom; that is, freedom determined by God, who not only creates the specific nature of human freedom, but also stipulates the uses and limits of such freedom.
Created freedom always boils down to the enslaving, burdensome matter of having to choose based upon naturalistic metaphysics. It reduces freedom to exterior-givens between choices. This weighs man down spiritually and makes life heavy and oppressive. Created freedom buries man in the external world and perpetually presses him to choose!
Of God freedom leaves no space for genuine spiritual creativity, nor does it value it. Obedience and fulfillment of predetermined expectations are the highest values to which created freedom can aspire. The essence of created freedom is God seeking a response to himself, from himself.
If God created man’s freedom, then man is just an instrument in the fulfillment—or rejection—of God’s law.
Very few modern people care about using God’s created freedom for God and choose instead to utilize of God freedom to free themselves of God and the burden of created freedom entirely.
Thus, the highest modern value is to be free from God and created freedom.
Nevertheless, the freedom modern people experience is basically of the same quality as of God freedom, albeit without the burden of having to worry about God at all.
So much for God creating human freedom to seek a response to himself, from himself.
Of God freedom is free will freedom—the freedom the choose between good and evil.
Of God freedom defines good as God’s law and evil as the rejection of this law. It is an imposed freedom. A necessary freedom. A natural freedom.
Put another way, of God freedom is determined freedom; that is, freedom determined by God, who not only creates the specific nature of human freedom, but also stipulates the uses and limits of such freedom.
Created freedom always boils down to the enslaving, burdensome matter of having to choose based upon naturalistic metaphysics. It reduces freedom to exterior-givens between choices. This weighs man down spiritually and makes life heavy and oppressive. Created freedom buries man in the external world and perpetually presses him to choose!
Of God freedom leaves no space for genuine spiritual creativity, nor does it value it. Obedience and fulfillment of predetermined expectations are the highest values to which created freedom can aspire. The essence of created freedom is God seeking a response to himself, from himself.
If God created man’s freedom, then man is just an instrument in the fulfillment—or rejection—of God’s law.
Very few modern people care about using God’s created freedom for God and choose instead to utilize of God freedom to free themselves of God and the burden of created freedom entirely.
Thus, the highest modern value is to be free from God and created freedom.
Nevertheless, the freedom modern people experience is basically of the same quality as of God freedom, albeit without the burden of having to worry about God at all.
So much for God creating human freedom to seek a response to himself, from himself.
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