True Freedom

Here at Freedom's Fight I try to promote freedom. I  thought it high time that I defined freedom for you, and told you (again) how to get it. First things first, what is freedom? Pure freedom is the ability to do what you want when you and where you want. But if you think about it pure freedom is not obtainable for every one, since doing something that I want like stealing for example would take the freedoms of other people away. 

This is foundational to the philosophy of government. Governments are a group of people who said that they would give up certain rights in order to protect more important ones. for instance giving up the right to drive recklessly on the road in order to make sure other people do not do the same. 

But there are freedoms that Americans want. Those freedoms fall into three category, life, that is the right of protection against bodily harm,  liberty, that is the rights of travel, free speech, religion, and owning property, and the pursuit of happiness, that is the right to use your stuff in a manner that you want to use it, the acquisition of wealth and the right to be happy.

Governments are the defenders of those freedoms. How oppressive is it then when the government turns from defending those liberties to taking them?

However, true freedom is not found in government or people or things. True freedom is freedom from self, that is the freedom from doing wrong, from the lust that easily grab us. There is only one place you can find that kind of freedom and that is in Jesus Christ and what he did on the cross. When you find this freedom you find true happiness. Moreover it is easy to get.The Bible in the book of Romans in chapter 10 verse 9-11 says if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.For the Scripture says, "WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED."

Today we protect tomorrow