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You can choose to do anything within your power. However, everything you choose to do will have consequences. We as humans are naturally built with compassion and the capacity to love, we are also built with selfish, survival ego, and a complicated mind that can be overcome with emotion.
We cannot satisfy ourselves exclusively by disregarding the bigger picture.
If you choose to do things that step on or harm others to get your own way, you are yielding to immaturity and carelessness, a poor attitude that shows a lack of respect for humanity, both for others and for yourself, by not being the person you could be that makes the world better, and not worse. You are letting yourself down, as well as the world around you.
The bigger your circle of influence, the more important it is for you to temper your desires with maturity. As we age, we have life experiences that make us think we know things and understand the world. We become arrogant. To curb that, we must always remember that we are individuals, with one life, and limited perspective. We are a tiny pebble creating a ripple in the pond.
While our circle of influence is small, we do still create a ripple effect. Everything we do should be considered for other impacts than our own thoughts and feelings.
As we begin to take on responsibility for others’ well being, be it making friends, being a student in a school of many, babysitting siblings or neighbor children, parenting, or doing any other job, paid or not, we must realize that our freedom is limited by our responsibility to ourselves and others.
Freedom always comes with a price, and that price is responsibility.
Living as a human being on Earth, you are a member of the world community. It’s a really big place with a lot of individual souls, all who have needs and wants, all who are trying to survive and be happy as they spend their lifetimes.
You have the right to do as you wish, but you do not have the right to impinge on the same freedom that everyone else has.
Therefore, your freedom is limited by your responsibility to not impinge on the rights of others to the same freedom, and by your responsibility as a member of the world community to contribute to it with goodness.
Break that basic commandment, and the world shall come down upon you, because you have failed in your level of care and made it clear that you do not deserve to keep your freedom, as you have no respect for what it truly means.
True freedom comes only from making choices that have no adverse natural consequences.
Thus, freedom to do whatever you please is an illusion. Every choice has consequences according to natural law (physical and spiritual), and any attempt to redefine those consequences to ones liking is vain and futile - but nonetheless making such attempts is a very human thing to do.
That’s why Jesus said that “the truth will set you free.” Only by knowing the truth, whether it’s the truth about physical laws or spiritual laws, do we gain the power to make the right choices that have consistently beneficial consequences.
People often replace the word freedom with the word license. Meaning, “ I have the right to do whatever I want!” I assert that no one is truly free and that all are bound by certain laws.
All authority is derived from one source. Mankind received it's authority from that source. He is only free to obey it or not obey it. You have the right or free-will to obey or not to. However, when you begin operating outside the parameters of the laws of the universe certain things happen as s result (see Law of Cause & Effect).
There are two laws which guide all things and they are: God's law and natural law.
Natural laws are hierarchical in nature; secondary laws of nature are based on primary laws of nature, which have to be just right in order for our universe to be possible. But, where did these laws come from, and why do they exist? If the universe were merely the accidental by-product of a big bang, then why should it obey orderly principles—or any principles at all for that matter? Such laws are consistent with biblical creation. Natural laws exist because the universe has a Creator God who is logical and has imposed order on His universe.*
So, we can see that natural laws follow the One who established them. Of course I'm saying that God established them. If you don't believe in Him, then I'm sure you have other issues that may need addressing first.
Everything in the universe, every plant and animal, every rock, every particle of matter or light wave, is bound by laws which it has no choice but to obey. The Bible tells us that there are laws of nature—“ordinances of heaven and earth” (Jeremiah 33:25). These laws describe the way God normally accomplishes His will in the universe.
God’s logic is built into the universe, and so the universe is not haphazard or arbitrary. It obeys laws of chemistry that are logically derived from the laws of physics, many of which can be logically derived from other laws of physics and laws of mathematics. The most fundamental laws of nature exist only because God wills them to; they are the logical, orderly way that the Lord upholds and sustains the universe He has created. The atheist is unable to account for the logical, orderly state of the universe. Why should the universe obey laws if there is no law-giver? But laws of nature are perfectly consistent with biblical creation. In fact, the Bible is the foundation for natural laws.
There is one well-known law of life: the law of biogenesis. This law states simply that life always comes from life. This is what observational science tells us: organisms reproduce other organisms after their own kind. Historically, Louis Pasteur disproved one alleged case of spontaneous generation; he showed that life comes from previous life. Since then, we have seen that this law is universal—with no known exceptions. This is, of course, exactly what we would expect from the Bible. According to Genesis 1, God supernaturally created the first diverse kinds of life on earth and made them to reproduce after their kind. Notice that molecules-to-man evolution violates the law of biogenesis. Evolutionists believe that life (at least once) spontaneously formed from nonliving chemicals. But this is inconsistent with the law of biogenesis. Real science confirms the Bible.
EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE, EVERY PLANT AND ANIMAL, EVERY ROCK, EVERY PARTICLE OF MATTER OR LIGHT WAVE, IS BOUND BY LAWS WHICH IT HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO OBEY.
The Laws of Chemistry
Life requires a specific chemistry. Our bodies are powered by chemical reactions and depend on the laws of chemistry operating in a uniform fashion. Even the information that makes up any living being is stored on a long molecule called DNA. Life as we know it would not be possible if the laws of chemistry were different. God created the laws of chemistry in just the right way so that life would be possible.
The laws of chemistry give different properties to the various elements (each made of one type of atom) and compounds (made up of two or more types of atoms that are bonded together) in the universe. For example, when given sufficient activation energy, the lightest element (hydrogen) will react with oxygen to form water. Water itself has some interesting properties, such as the ability to hold an unusually large amount of heat energy. When frozen, water forms crystals with six-sided symmetry (which is why snowflakes are generally six-sided). Contrast this with salt (sodium chloride) crystals, which tend to form cubes. It is the six-fold symmetry of water ice that causes “holes” in its crystal, making it less dense than its own liquid. That’s why ice floats in water (whereas essentially all other frozen compounds sink in their own liquid).
The properties of elements and compounds are not arbitrary. In fact, the elements can be logically organized into a periodic table based on their physical properties. Substances in the same column on the table tend to have similar properties. This follows because elements in a vertical column have the same outer electron structures. These outermost electrons determine the physical characteristics of the atom. The periodic table did not happen by chance. Atoms and molecules have their various properties because their electrons are bound by the laws of quantum physics. In other words, chemistry is based on physics. If the laws of quantum physics were just a bit different, atoms might not even be possible. God designed the laws of physics just right so that the laws of chemistry would come out the way He wanted them to.
The Laws of Planetary Motion
The creation scientist Johannes Kepler discovered that the planets in our solar system obey three laws of nature. He found that planets orbit in ellipses (not perfect circles as had been previously thought) with the sun at one focus of the ellipse; thus a given planet is sometimes closer to the sun than at other times. Kepler also found that planets sweep out equal areas in equal times—in other words, planets speed up as they get closer to the sun within their orbit. And third, Kepler found the exact mathematical relationship between a planet’s distance from the sun (a) and its orbital period (p); planets that are farther from the sun take much longer to orbit than planets that are closer (expressed as 2=a3). Kepler’s laws also apply to the orbits of moons around a given planet.1
As with the laws of chemistry, these laws of planetary motion are not fundamental. Rather, they are the logical derivation of other laws of nature. In fact, it was another creation scientist (Sir Isaac Newton) who discovered that Kepler’s laws could be derived mathematically from certain laws of physics—specifically, the laws of gravity and motion (which Newton himself formulated).
If a mind/person, at any given moment, could know all of the forces operating in nature and the respective positions of all its components, it would thereby know with certainty the future and the past of every entity, large or small. The Persian poet Omar Khayyam expressed a similar deterministic view of the world in the concluding half of one of his quatrains: “And the first Morning of Creation wrote / What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.”
The concept of freedom is now erroneously championed as “I can do whatever I want.” Freedom has been reduced to a completely self-serving ideal that proclaims because I am free I am guaranteed to do and have particular things in life. This concept and the actions and attitudes it produces are key components in the “me and mine” attitude our nation is struggling with. Many are even interpreting freedom to mean that no one should disagree with or fight their views. Freedom has to be bigger, deeper and more than this. Freedom at its core is the ability to do what I ought, not simply what I want. Who claim there are no moral absolutes in a quandary. To exercise freedom, which inherently includes having that exercise protected, there must be some moral consensus on what is right, what is worth fighting and sacrificing for. If there is no consensus, there is no way to determine if I am fighting for freedoms or for anarchy and tyranny.
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So I suggest:
Instead of taking the side of FREEDOM, take the side of TRUTH.
Cos, truth does justice. freedom may not!
You can choose to do anything within your power. However, everything you choose to do will have consequences. We as humans are naturally built with compassion and the capacity to love, we are also built with selfish, survival ego, and a complicated mind that can be overcome with emotion.
We cannot satisfy ourselves exclusively by disregarding the bigger picture.
If you choose to do things that step on or harm others to get your own way, you are yielding to immaturity and carelessness, a poor attitude that shows a lack of respect for humanity, both for others and for yourself, by not being the person you could be that makes the world better, and not worse. You are letting yourself down, as well as the world around you.
The bigger your circle of influence, the more important it is for you to temper your desires with maturity. As we age, we have life experiences that make us think we know things and understand the world. We become arrogant. To curb that, we must always remember that we are individuals, with one life, and limited perspective. We are a tiny pebble creating a ripple in the pond.
While our circle of influence is small, we do still create a ripple effect. Everything we do should be considered for other impacts than our own thoughts and feelings.
As we begin to take on responsibility for others’ well being, be it making friends, being a student in a school of many, babysitting siblings or neighbor children, parenting, or doing any other job, paid or not, we must realize that our freedom is limited by our responsibility to ourselves and others.
Freedom always comes with a price, and that price is responsibility.
Living as a human being on Earth, you are a member of the world community. It’s a really big place with a lot of individual souls, all who have needs and wants, all who are trying to survive and be happy as they spend their lifetimes.
You have the right to do as you wish, but you do not have the right to impinge on the same freedom that everyone else has.
Therefore, your freedom is limited by your responsibility to not impinge on the rights of others to the same freedom, and by your responsibility as a member of the world community to contribute to it with goodness.
Break that basic commandment, and the world shall come down upon you, because you have failed in your level of care and made it clear that you do not deserve to keep your freedom, as you have no respect for what it truly means.
True freedom comes only from making choices that have no adverse natural consequences.
Thus, freedom to do whatever you please is an illusion. Every choice has consequences according to natural law (physical and spiritual), and any attempt to redefine those consequences to ones liking is vain and futile - but nonetheless making such attempts is a very human thing to do.
That’s why Jesus said that “the truth will set you free.” Only by knowing the truth, whether it’s the truth about physical laws or spiritual laws, do we gain the power to make the right choices that have consistently beneficial consequences.
People often replace the word freedom with the word license. Meaning, “ I have the right to do whatever I want!” I assert that no one is truly free and that all are bound by certain laws.
All authority is derived from one source. Mankind received it's authority from that source. He is only free to obey it or not obey it. You have the right or free-will to obey or not to. However, when you begin operating outside the parameters of the laws of the universe certain things happen as s result (see Law of Cause & Effect).
There are two laws which guide all things and they are: God's law and natural law.
Natural laws are hierarchical in nature; secondary laws of nature are based on primary laws of nature, which have to be just right in order for our universe to be possible. But, where did these laws come from, and why do they exist? If the universe were merely the accidental by-product of a big bang, then why should it obey orderly principles—or any principles at all for that matter? Such laws are consistent with biblical creation. Natural laws exist because the universe has a Creator God who is logical and has imposed order on His universe.*
So, we can see that natural laws follow the One who established them. Of course I'm saying that God established them. If you don't believe in Him, then I'm sure you have other issues that may need addressing first.
Everything in the universe, every plant and animal, every rock, every particle of matter or light wave, is bound by laws which it has no choice but to obey. The Bible tells us that there are laws of nature—“ordinances of heaven and earth” (Jeremiah 33:25). These laws describe the way God normally accomplishes His will in the universe.
God’s logic is built into the universe, and so the universe is not haphazard or arbitrary. It obeys laws of chemistry that are logically derived from the laws of physics, many of which can be logically derived from other laws of physics and laws of mathematics. The most fundamental laws of nature exist only because God wills them to; they are the logical, orderly way that the Lord upholds and sustains the universe He has created. The atheist is unable to account for the logical, orderly state of the universe. Why should the universe obey laws if there is no law-giver? But laws of nature are perfectly consistent with biblical creation. In fact, the Bible is the foundation for natural laws.
There is one well-known law of life: the law of biogenesis. This law states simply that life always comes from life. This is what observational science tells us: organisms reproduce other organisms after their own kind. Historically, Louis Pasteur disproved one alleged case of spontaneous generation; he showed that life comes from previous life. Since then, we have seen that this law is universal—with no known exceptions. This is, of course, exactly what we would expect from the Bible. According to Genesis 1, God supernaturally created the first diverse kinds of life on earth and made them to reproduce after their kind. Notice that molecules-to-man evolution violates the law of biogenesis. Evolutionists believe that life (at least once) spontaneously formed from nonliving chemicals. But this is inconsistent with the law of biogenesis. Real science confirms the Bible.
EVERYTHING IN THE UNIVERSE, EVERY PLANT AND ANIMAL, EVERY ROCK, EVERY PARTICLE OF MATTER OR LIGHT WAVE, IS BOUND BY LAWS WHICH IT HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO OBEY.
The Laws of Chemistry
Life requires a specific chemistry. Our bodies are powered by chemical reactions and depend on the laws of chemistry operating in a uniform fashion. Even the information that makes up any living being is stored on a long molecule called DNA. Life as we know it would not be possible if the laws of chemistry were different. God created the laws of chemistry in just the right way so that life would be possible.
The laws of chemistry give different properties to the various elements (each made of one type of atom) and compounds (made up of two or more types of atoms that are bonded together) in the universe. For example, when given sufficient activation energy, the lightest element (hydrogen) will react with oxygen to form water. Water itself has some interesting properties, such as the ability to hold an unusually large amount of heat energy. When frozen, water forms crystals with six-sided symmetry (which is why snowflakes are generally six-sided). Contrast this with salt (sodium chloride) crystals, which tend to form cubes. It is the six-fold symmetry of water ice that causes “holes” in its crystal, making it less dense than its own liquid. That’s why ice floats in water (whereas essentially all other frozen compounds sink in their own liquid).
The properties of elements and compounds are not arbitrary. In fact, the elements can be logically organized into a periodic table based on their physical properties. Substances in the same column on the table tend to have similar properties. This follows because elements in a vertical column have the same outer electron structures. These outermost electrons determine the physical characteristics of the atom. The periodic table did not happen by chance. Atoms and molecules have their various properties because their electrons are bound by the laws of quantum physics. In other words, chemistry is based on physics. If the laws of quantum physics were just a bit different, atoms might not even be possible. God designed the laws of physics just right so that the laws of chemistry would come out the way He wanted them to.
The Laws of Planetary Motion
The creation scientist Johannes Kepler discovered that the planets in our solar system obey three laws of nature. He found that planets orbit in ellipses (not perfect circles as had been previously thought) with the sun at one focus of the ellipse; thus a given planet is sometimes closer to the sun than at other times. Kepler also found that planets sweep out equal areas in equal times—in other words, planets speed up as they get closer to the sun within their orbit. And third, Kepler found the exact mathematical relationship between a planet’s distance from the sun (a) and its orbital period (p); planets that are farther from the sun take much longer to orbit than planets that are closer (expressed as 2=a3). Kepler’s laws also apply to the orbits of moons around a given planet.1
As with the laws of chemistry, these laws of planetary motion are not fundamental. Rather, they are the logical derivation of other laws of nature. In fact, it was another creation scientist (Sir Isaac Newton) who discovered that Kepler’s laws could be derived mathematically from certain laws of physics—specifically, the laws of gravity and motion (which Newton himself formulated).
If a mind/person, at any given moment, could know all of the forces operating in nature and the respective positions of all its components, it would thereby know with certainty the future and the past of every entity, large or small. The Persian poet Omar Khayyam expressed a similar deterministic view of the world in the concluding half of one of his quatrains: “And the first Morning of Creation wrote / What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.”
The concept of freedom is now erroneously championed as “I can do whatever I want.” Freedom has been reduced to a completely self-serving ideal that proclaims because I am free I am guaranteed to do and have particular things in life. This concept and the actions and attitudes it produces are key components in the “me and mine” attitude our nation is struggling with. Many are even interpreting freedom to mean that no one should disagree with or fight their views. Freedom has to be bigger, deeper and more than this. Freedom at its core is the ability to do what I ought, not simply what I want. Who claim there are no moral absolutes in a quandary. To exercise freedom, which inherently includes having that exercise protected, there must be some moral consensus on what is right, what is worth fighting and sacrificing for. If there is no consensus, there is no way to determine if I am fighting for freedoms or for anarchy and tyranny.
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So I suggest:
Instead of taking the side of FREEDOM, take the side of TRUTH.
Cos, truth does justice. freedom may not!