Thoughts about Freedom

 Robots and zombies do whatever they do aut0matically without even thinking about what they are doing. They never realize that they could do what they do differently from the way they are doing them. But humans with an active consciousness and intelligence can see many different ways of doing most of what they do. In other words, they can make choices. They have freedom.

If humans were really programmed to do whatever they do, then they, like robots or zombies, would never even think that choices were possible. If an intelligent person thinks about his choices, then that would prove that when he thinks he has freedom, then he actually has it. His intelligence causes him to have freedom. Intelligence cannot exist without freedom, and freedom cannot exist without intelligence.

Tyrants do not like anybody's freedom but their own. They enjoy having power over others. They seek to program people's minds to think and make choices strictly within the confines of their own political philosophy. In other words, they desire as much as is possible, to program people to be political robots. For this reason, all societies controlled by kings and tyrants become stagnant. But when a particular society acquires political freedom, then the people become physically and mentally free to create the most astounding, beneficial systems that are possible. Such societies achieve progress.

But the most important type of freedom that a person can acquire is spiritual freedom. The Devil has injected spiritual death into the lives of every person. Genesis 2:17; Genesis 3:15 (KJB). That evil seeks to program a person to make choices that are destructive and addictive. In other words, the Devil causes a person to misuse his freedom in a way that will destroy his freedom. But God creates every human in His own image. Genesis 1:31; Genesis 1:26-27 (KJB). In other words, God creates humans to have the intelligence needed to always choose to create any kind of beneficial system. That is the very purpose of freedom. Nevertheless, the power of the influence of sin and evil inside of every person inevitably causes every human to sin except those who die before they can sin. Romans 3:23 (KJB). Every human has become trapped in spiritual slavery from which they cannot liberate themselves. But every human must become liberated from this spiritual slavery or it will eventually utterly destroy them forever.

Humans cannot liberate themselves, but God can. Romans 5:6-8 (KJB). God's Son Jesus sacrificed Himself on a cruel cross, and He took all of the spiritual deaths, sin, and evil of every human on Himself and died their spiritual deaths in their places, and He rose from the dead victorious over all spiritual death, sin, evil, and the Devil. Genesis 3:15; Psalm 22:6; II Corinthians 5:21; John 12:31-32; Revelation 1:17-18; I Timothy 4:10 (KJB). But humans can only become liberated from spiritual slavery when they return to the faith that God put into them when He created them that God has all the power needed to liberate them. Genesis 1:31; Romans 1:17 (KJB). God will return all humans to faith in Him in two different ways. Those who return to faith in Christ while still alive in the flesh will become immediately saved by God's grace. John 5:24; Luke 23:39-43 (KJB). But since God has Almighty Love which cannot fail, and He can never lose anything He has ever created, then He must have a plan to save the rest of humanity that fails to become saved by grace. I Corinthians 13:8; Ecclesiastes 3:14 (KJB). In the end of the world, Christ will appear to all humans "on the earth, and under the earth" in a great worship service that will cause all humans who did not obtain salvation by grace to choose to return to faith in Christ as the Lamb of God their Savior. Revelation 5:11-14 (KJB). Christ will save them all from spiritual slavery but with a lesser form of salvation. Revelation 21:1-5; Revelation 22:11-12; John 8:32 (KJB).