Can rules lead to freedom??

Question

Here is an example of how interpretation of rules can have different outcome.. They are the rules of the pool of the hotel next door. Just went to get an exact copy, they had been removed, they are painting..There was some classic stuff in there I now miss, the way one of them was formulated in the 2 languages was in was fantastic. I took them as rules for us here (pool is really symbol restrictive are we here??) It was talking about guests like we are. On top of it the radio was playing "We are the children looking for Love". The whole thing fit, I use only 3 rules here..
*The use of stereos in pool area is forbidden
I read the use of stereotypes here is forbidden..

*Don't change the children in the poolarea. Got in trouble with management, for the children I babysat were playing with a hose, no one complained, and the few guests that were sitting around actually decided to get in themselves andhave fun.. I pointed to the rules and said you are trying to change the children..

The third one I wanna mention: Children should have supervision at all time..

God keeps telling me to develop supervision, X-ray vision or television...Maybe my explanation of this one would lead to too much controversy again, so I leave it there..

You see how things can be if you look at them with a new mind?? God is everywhere, teaching those who wanna listen///tune in...

There were more rules, it was great.... I was actually in demonic attack when the manager came at me all dark eyed. One of the children was dunking under and when she came up she would go, keep saying it and keep fighting.. see He is there..(This is also how I got the Houdini analogy: One of the kids went like harry?? (I think she said harry wonder if??) houdini was a,, (whole description) and then I Am like Houdini I always come free.. Yeah He is chained up in our Hearts, yet will come free..

Love

Soo a lttle illustration of my freaky dory experience and how He helps me through.

Answer 1

I read the answers that everyone else has given, and I think they are pretty much on target. I like how you made the point that each person's interpretation of things can be vastly different, and I enjoyed the analogies you gave.

Without repeating what everyone else has already written, let me add that you make a good point for getting all the facts before we form an opinion or come to a conclusion, much like we expect to happen in a court of law.

Of course, life isn't a courtroom and there is not always the time to consider each aspect of every situation. So I would say that in presenting this to us, you are telling us that we need to keep our eyes, ears, hearts and minds tuned in to the world around us, and be always ready to see the other side when it presents itself to us. And sometimes we may need to go looking.

Live and let live, especially with an open mind.

Answer 2

Freedom is not free - there must always be something higher that is followed be it the rules, the Bible, the Koran or whatever.

My children when they were teenagers complained how much they wanted their freedom to do what they wanted and when they wanted. Now their adults and they realize that the only time they are truly free and happy is a by product of doing the right thing.

Answer 3

I don't know about all that other crap you spouted, but yes, rules can lead to freedom. They keep you free from the constricting actions of others. Your net freedom after instituting rules is often greater than with no rules at all and having to deal with others infringing on your ability to be free.

Answer 4

yes its about a persons perseption of the rules

rules are a necessity-but with power the rules are our friend-they are there to keep law breakers from hurting others-and in Jesus it says and ye shall know the truth a nd the truth shall set you free.

when you have the power to do right-the rules are a blessing unless they step into personal freedom-like u cant share the gospel-david in Jesus amazing grace

Answer 5

Rules are essential for freedom. They form the framework within which freedom can be experienced. If our nation had no laws (rules) there would be complete anarchy, and no-one would have any freedom at all.

Answer 6

Perhaps, but rules are rules you never can run from them and without rules our world might be diffrent. Oh no let me refrazed that with no rules the WORLD WILL BE A CRIMINAL PLACE.

Answer 7

Well obviously rules and freedom are opposites

Answer 8

Thanks for asking!

"liberty" was found 18 times in 17 verses in the New Testament.

Luke 4:18 - The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

Acts 24:23 - And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him.

Acts 26:32 - Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.

Acts 27:3 - And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself.

Romans 8:21 - Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

1 Corinthians 7:39 - The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 8:9 - But take heed lest by any means this liberty of your's become a stumbling block to them that are weak.

1 Corinthians 10:29 - Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?

2 Corinthians 3:17 - Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Galatians 2:4 - And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

Galatians 5:1 - Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Galatians 5:13 - For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

Hebrews 13:23 - Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.

James 1:25 - But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

James 2:12 - So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

1 Peter 2:16 - As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

2 Peter 2:19 - While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

Answer 9

good rule are made to make things safer, but not all ruses are logical

Answer 10

only if you dont understand the whole meaning of them.