Philos
Veteran Member
Folks,
There are those who pay obeisance to the Christian God and yet talk about loving freedom.How can this be?
The Christian God does allow humans to turn away from it’s law, and this is lauded as moral freedom: the ‘free will to reject union with God’. But at what cost?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
The cost is ‘hell’. Now, there is much interpretation and logic chopping about the nature of hell, but one thing we can be sure of, it is a punishment vastly exceeding any earthly sufferings and from which there is no appeal. Can there be dissenters in hell? Is there a way out for those who honestly reject the ‘love’ of a jealous God?
Let us compare this to dissent in other unhappy situations, such as imprisonment in nasty political systems. In these cases we are still free, despite dreadful hardships, to retain our own moral compass. There are many examples, but one is the case of Nelson Mandela on Robben island. Such cases show that it is possible in these earthly sufferings to retain the spark of freedom within ourselves.
No such possibility remains with the Christian God. Reject God in your innermost heart and burn - end of story. It is my suggestion that this is no ‘freedom’ worth the name for such emotional and psychological captives. The Christian believer is locked and chained in moral and spiritual subjection and if they fail to bend the knee to God’s mystery it will destroy them without trace. Cast into the eternal fires like a piece of trash.
Where is the freedom in that?
Alex.
There are those who pay obeisance to the Christian God and yet talk about loving freedom.How can this be?
The Christian God does allow humans to turn away from it’s law, and this is lauded as moral freedom: the ‘free will to reject union with God’. But at what cost?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
The cost is ‘hell’. Now, there is much interpretation and logic chopping about the nature of hell, but one thing we can be sure of, it is a punishment vastly exceeding any earthly sufferings and from which there is no appeal. Can there be dissenters in hell? Is there a way out for those who honestly reject the ‘love’ of a jealous God?
Let us compare this to dissent in other unhappy situations, such as imprisonment in nasty political systems. In these cases we are still free, despite dreadful hardships, to retain our own moral compass. There are many examples, but one is the case of Nelson Mandela on Robben island. Such cases show that it is possible in these earthly sufferings to retain the spark of freedom within ourselves.
No such possibility remains with the Christian God. Reject God in your innermost heart and burn - end of story. It is my suggestion that this is no ‘freedom’ worth the name for such emotional and psychological captives. The Christian believer is locked and chained in moral and spiritual subjection and if they fail to bend the knee to God’s mystery it will destroy them without trace. Cast into the eternal fires like a piece of trash.
Where is the freedom in that?
Alex.