[MD] The Roots of Freedom

[Jon Bennett]

Hi Mary,

It was meant to be freedom withing certain bounds. But we are free creatures
and can choose good or evil.

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Mary <marysonthego at gmail.com> wrote:

> [Jon said]
> You have freedom, even the freedom to read these words, not because you
> were
> envisioned as a static pattern continually being transformed by a dynamic
> pattern. This includes the freedom not to be arrested at will, dragged from
> your house and imprisoned or tortured for your thoughts and speech-and all
> the other freedoms and rights you enjoy and take for granted. These rights
> did not arise and were not acknowledged in the East where moq ideas were
> prevalent.
>
> You have these freedoms because you were seen as created in the very image
> of God. And you were endowed by your Creator with these rights because your
> life was seen as sacred. Not a static, certainly not a dynamic pattern, but
> a child of the living God. That is the source of freedom, personal and
> political.
>
> [Mary Replies]
> Well, thank God for that!  Funny how a higher level can use the givens of a
> lower level to go off on purposes of its own.  Really glad of that too,
> since I wouldn't like to have to get up early on Sunday's to go to an
> institution.  Do you ever get the idea this God stuff was not thought out
> too well?  I mean, I'm not sure all this freedom was what was intended.
>  But
> hey, I'll take what I can get!
>
> Thanks,
> Mary
>
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