http://powertochange.com/blogposts/2007/08/01/transformers-and-freedom/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 16:50:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://powertochange.com/blogposts/2007/08/01/transformers-and-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-1839 JBH Tue, 07 Aug 2007 04:00:18 +0000 http://movies.thelife.com/2007/08/01/transformers-and-freedom/#comment-1839 Freedom is "an inalienable right". So I guess Optimus Prime and Thomas Jefferson see eye to eye on that one. So, freedom is given by God and if given by God, it's for everyone, everywhere. The base nature of people is (to me) at best unpredictable. Sometimes we as a people are capable of such beauty and such good. And then, we can do such horrific things and have a heart that's truly wicked. I think that's because, unlike most modernists, I know that God made people. Made them "in his image" and that's where we get the beauty and goodness. But he granted freedom. And that's where we get the ugly; we can choose and we all at some point, choose wrong. So, we're a mixed bag I think. But no matter how much our good might outweigh the bad, it's still so far, so very far from the bright-light holiness of God. That's why jesus is the only one who offers a path of salvation without having to work for it. We can try, but he knows we won't succeed. So, he offered it as something free to us. Now that I think about it, freedom is actually pretty dangerous. Freedom is “an inalienable right”. So I guess Optimus Prime and Thomas Jefferson see eye to eye on that one. So, freedom is given by God and if given by God, it’s for everyone, everywhere. The base nature of people is (to me) at best unpredictable. Sometimes we as a people are capable of such beauty and such good. And then, we can do such horrific things and have a heart that’s truly wicked. I think that’s because, unlike most modernists, I know that God made people. Made them “in his image” and that’s where we get the beauty and goodness. But he granted freedom. And that’s where we get the ugly; we can choose and we all at some point, choose wrong. So, we’re a mixed bag I think. But no matter how much our good might outweigh the bad, it’s still so far, so very far from the bright-light holiness of God. That’s why jesus is the only one who offers a path of salvation without having to work for it. We can try, but he knows we won’t succeed. So, he offered it as something free to us. Now that I think about it, freedom is actually pretty dangerous.

]]> http://powertochange.com/blogposts/2007/08/01/transformers-and-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-1838 L_cool_J Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:38:23 +0000 http://movies.thelife.com/2007/08/01/transformers-and-freedom/#comment-1838 I don't necessarily think that freedom of choice or free will is a bad thing. And I don't believe that when faced with a choice human nature will choose evil all the time. Freedom is a great gift given to all of us, for example I know that I have freedom in Christ, that my sins are forgiven and God loves me, that allows me a lot of freedom and ultimately living in that freedom dictates the choices I make in my life. I don’t necessarily think that freedom of choice or free will is a bad thing. And I don’t believe that when faced with a choice human nature will choose evil all the time. Freedom is a great gift given to all of us, for example I know that I have freedom in Christ, that my sins are forgiven and God loves me, that allows me a lot of freedom and ultimately living in that freedom dictates the choices I make in my life.

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