Making Choices – Are We Really Free?
July 12, 2009
When God created us he gave us the freedom of choice. Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, we are in bondage to the consequences of that choice. Some people define freedom as the right to exercise their own choices, to be free moral agents. No restrictions! “I can do whatever I want to do,” say the libertarians, defending the right to make their own choices. “If I want to have a drink, I’m going to have a drink.” They don’t seem to have a clue as to how deep their bondage is… freedom doesn’t lie only in the exercise of choice; it is also always related to the consequences of that choice.
I suppose I am “free” to tell a lie, but wouldn’t I be in bondage to that choice? I would have to remember to whom I told the lie and what I told them. I suppose I am “free” to rob a bank, but wouldn’t I be in bondage to that act the rest of my life? I would always be looking over my shoulder, wondering if I would be caught. We can choose to drink shots all night, sleep with a prostitute, or inject heroin into our body… but we would have to live with the consequences of each choice.
So, I ask you, are we really free? The bible says in Deu 30:19
“I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live.”
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