Liberty Means a Faith in God
Leave it to Douglas Wilson, a much better writer than I am, to sum up the whole theme of this blog in just a few paragraphs.
Frederic Bastiat put it well — “Liberty is an acknowledgement of faith in God and his works.” Flip this around and we see that no society can or will have economic liberty unless there is a robust faith in God pervasive throughout that society. If there is no faith in God, we want to get in there and manage what everybody else is doing, and liberty dies. When we have faith, we let go. When we don’t believe, we clutch, preferably through our elected representatives.
And what’s truly sickening about it all is that it is the Christians who are so quick to kill liberty and clutch to their elected representatives. As Wilson shows, however, this is simply motivated by fear, and shows a supreme lack of faith.
You cannot have genuinely free markets without free men, and you cannot have free men without the gospel. If you do not have the gospel, then man will get in there somehow in order to try to save himself and others. He will try to save himself by using taxes, redistribution, lobbying influence, stimulus packages, environmental regulations, land reform, cozy deals with the government, and so on, ad infinitum.
In other words, he will try to save himself through violence and theft, which is nothing but base animal instinct.
We try to imagine life without our precious [government], and then we panic — and our panic chases us back into what we call prudence. We don’t know what liberty is, and so it scares us. We don’t know what liberty is because we don’t know what the gospel is, and we don’t know what the gospel is intended to do. Peter can’t walk on the water so long as he is holding on to the side of the boat.
It’s time to test the waters and let go of the boat.
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The love of God in Christ liberates those who put their faith in God and Christ. This liberty has to be used with wisdom in order to show appreciation for the immense cost with which our freedom from bondage to sin was bought.
What helps me the most is to wake up everyday thanking God for my blessings. Giving thanks is a good way to strengthen faith. Even if ; your prayers of thanks are just spoken in your thoughts.
All scripture is inspired of God - The Spirit of God not only once inspired those who wrote it, but continually inspires, supernaturally assists, those that read it with earnest prayer.
The freedom comes from knowing I can trust God to take care of my needs (as opposed to my desires). But I also know I am responsible for doing everything in my power to cut costs and look for work.
Buddha is no god, he was a wise man. Buddha is dead and gone, what makes you think he is coming back? You obviously do not understand my religion, so do not insult.
Liberty in Christ gives me peace in my heart, peace about the past, peace for the present, peace for the future and freedom to live a life pleasing to God.
For instance, a bird called the Blackpoll Warbler has been tracked flying from Alaska to New England and then out over the Atlantic, catching the Jet Stream back to South America, then flying back all the way to Alaska every year.
god is everywhere in everyone of us .. you just have to open your eyes to see it
The Spirit of God not only once inspired those who wrote it, but continually inspires, supernaturally assists, those that read it with earnest praye
The historic truth that the United States as a nation has at all times maintained clear, definite opposition, to any attempt to lock us in behind an ancient Chinese wall while the procession of civilization went past. Today, thinking of our children and of their children, we oppose enforced isolation for ourselves or for any other part of the Americas.
What does liberty in Christ mean to you as a Christian?
In many ways the interior structure is just as interesting as the outside. People come to see the outside and often neglect to properly look at the inside.but really it is mavellous.
If you can go straight to God then why ask other people to pray for you, unless you have no faith God can even hear you?
A fact that things people read from it are taken out of the context of what it meant, and that also the meaning of what most people read (even in latin) is meaningless today, because we don’t know what they were talking about at the time, we are out of touch.
The only way to justify everything is to believe that something had already existed before, one that had no beginning. One that always was, is, and will always be. It’s hard to conceptualize, but like you already mentioned, that’s where faith comes in.
What does Liberty mean to you?
Much appreciated Reggie. I think once they see the “truth” for the first time in their lives many will come around. Liberty is a pretty enticing model when you give it a chance.
Where are the usual fashionable libertarians and atheists who haunt this message board? In the pub I suppose. Unless they have all swanned off to the Bahamas for half=term forgetting to take their blackberries or whatever.
I will sum up the whole thing. It is the beginning of the end of America as we know it. Once we get attacked again.
One last thing, you stated Virginia Tech has over 100,000 students. According to College Profile they have approximately 21,000 undergraduate students, slightly more than 10% larger than Liberty. Yet, their College Democrat party is 300% larger.
Salvation is a FREE GIFT that happens in a split second when you believe in JESUS for His free gift of salvation! It is impossible to lose or “leave” salvation (John 6:39-40, John 10:28, 1 John 5:13).