Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Saturday, September 05, 2009 10:30:59 AM
The authoritarian whether he be a religionist or statist cannot tolerate an authority above his own. An open Bible was suppressed for centuries because the apostate church could not explain its lawlessness to a people with their own Bible. The open Bible in the common tongues brought accountability and a great Reformation. Aristocracy in the church and state could not stand before the authority of God’s law. Liberty began to dawn.
Re: http://townhall.com/columnists/KenKlukowski/2009/09/05/controlling_childrens_minds
We are told that liberty is the result of the age of Enlightenment and the rise of autonomous reason independent of the Bible. But look at the fruit of it in the French Revolution compared to the American Revolution. Lost is the truth that man's reason is evidence of the reasonable God, whose image we bear.
Now we who enjoy the heritage of a culture built on Reformation thought are throwing it away in exchange for a secularism based on vain philosophy that man is a product of the mindless arrangement of matter and energy without purposeful design. The irrational leads us away from liberty and back towards tyranny.
Liberty depends on truth, and Christ has declared the truth…
“If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” They answered Him, “We are Abraham’s descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can You say, ‘You will be made free’?” Jesus answered them, “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. And a slave does not abide in the house forever, but a son abides forever. Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.” [John 8]
Will we be like the Jews and deny our bondage to sin and remain its slave? Christ is the beginning of all liberty; in Him there is liberty indeed.