Freewill is the most difficult of God's gifts to understand or appreciate. The person who gives up selfish freedom and agrees to be God's servant will always be truly free.
2007-05-20 20:35:39 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Freedom is one of the most valuable things there is, although many of us have no idea how precious it is until we suffer the loss of it. It is considered to be one of the basic human rights, and to attempt to withhold that right without very just cause is a most serious sin. We all like to think that we are free, and that we have freewill when making our choices in life - but let us think for a moment about the realities of the situation. Are we really born to be free? And if, in what ways? What does this mean for us?
2007-05-20 20:36:21 · update #1
I believe so.
Freedom also requires responsibility of thought & action.
For instance, as a young child you are provided with teeth. If you are fortunate your are provided with the resources and the proper teaching for the uses and care of those teeth throughout life
You can use these teeth in anyway you see fit. You are responsible for your own teeth. If you abuse them you could lose them. Cause and effect.
Responsibility means service. You must service the teeth to keep them. to keep the freedom of teeth, of using teeth. The teeth along with saliva,tongue,etc. serve you in first-line digestion, filtring, and speech.
The best of all masters is also the best of all servants. The attribute of service is lost on many. Consider that we are served long before we are born.
2007-05-20 21:07:00 · answer #1 · answered by LeBlanc 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. What freedoms we have left, religion and faith included, were paid for by the men and women who served in the military, and fought to secure freedom and liberty, often giving their lives in that cause. For most of the world's history the common people weren't free to decide much of anything. In one sense freedom is the ability to choose, which is a relatively recent idea , but is such a choice you mentioned really a free choice -- free of coercion, threats, and bullying, and torture from both those who want to sell you their creed, and those who would force you to into another faith or be persecuted and killed? Sorry, this truely free 'choice' doesn't exist in most of the world, even today.
2007-05-21 04:05:40 · answer #2 · answered by sheik_sebir 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are born into freedom....but a child is not free if you consider that parents usually teach their children their beliefs.
We become free as we grow and ask and learn and trip and fall and get up and try again to learn again.
It does not seem like a good idea to give up any part of our self to be a servant to anything or anyone.
It doesn't make sense that a Higher Power would create Freedom and then demand it back. (sorry, I just don't get that concept).
2007-05-21 03:47:20 · answer #3 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Albert Einstein said ," A life spent serving others is a life of worth. Who did Jesus serve if not humanity ? whether atheist Buddhists or just smart the reasons to serve are real and the benefit and fulfillment profit each of us after all we are all humans and hence a part of humanity why would one go against them self? free to live in peace and prosperity is a full time arduous task for all . and it can't happen without developing understanding character heart and the will to life a good life for ourselves and others . Figure out how you can promote by right thinking and right acting and your kindness will encourage others to do the same .
2007-05-21 03:46:10 · answer #4 · answered by dogpatch USA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No... We're just born. ... If you're lucky and not born as say:
- Egyptian pyramid builder.
- American black cotton-picker pre-civil war.
- Young Indian child in slave labour situation...
Then you're possibly free. Your *truly free* just reeks of a self-righteous and bigoted attitude, as probably *all* atheists and many, many more H. sapiens sapiens consider themselves just as "truly free" as you.
That you somehow dismiss 2/3 of humanity so cavalierly says much about the Xian ethic. Personally, it makes you and Xianity sound most hideous.
2007-05-21 03:38:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
free is a birthright butl also a state of mind. To me, Christans are not free, nor is any other religious affiliation. They are shakled by labels, books, a "certain way of thinking". How can you be free when you are defined by a certain way of thinking and then you label it-most people-christanity. And if people dont think like you, most christans say, I feel sorry for you, I'm going to pray for you-stuff like that.
I used to be that foolish, so I can speak on it.
2007-05-21 03:41:34 · answer #6 · answered by science rules! 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
God's servant? Doesn't sound like "FREE" to me.
2007-05-21 03:39:22 · answer #7 · answered by Bad God 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We were free to be born. there goes the answer
2007-05-21 03:43:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Unfortunately, we're all slaves to Wal-Mart.
2007-05-21 03:51:37 · answer #9 · answered by goaltender 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We are as free as we will let ourselves be!
2007-05-21 04:04:26 · answer #10 · answered by Dalmatian lady 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋