Choices have consequences which at times are subtle and unnoticed and at other times claim almost all of one's life and living.
How often a person can claim freedom only to be hemmed in by biases, claim insight only to be bound by partiality, claim autonomy only to be trapped in self imposed limits, claim independence from faith and yet be trapped in prejudices against faith, and the list goes on and on?
It is as if one is caught in a vortex of
understanding and then while being carried about in that vortex claims all reality outside of that vortex
does not exist. That is the freedom some loudly proclaim. However, the reality is that such freedom is not freedom at all but bondage. Any sincere seeker of truth and thus freedom takes down all preconceived notions and follows the trail of truth to wherever it may lead. If one cannot in all honesty say that they do so then such seeking is not legitimate.
Most often when that trail leads
into the arena of faith and in particular Christian faith, one's preconceived prejudices against Christian faith will block one's way. Such a person can be carried along by the
trends and current of their prejudices without even knowing it. When such is the case they are by choice, blind to all that lies outside of their reality and rather than making a sincere effort as a seeker of truth they loudly make proclamations of special truth, superior insights, experience, and science.
In doing so such a person purposefully turns a blind eye to that which is not in in one's your
knowledge-comfort zone--even going on the attack. Such is not freedom
but an enslavement to one's own limited understanding. These are the
choices one has the freedom to make however one has no control
over the outcomes of those choices.Chose carefully as there are eternal consequences for how one decides.
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