![]() ![]() Mastery of the rules that govern and sustain reality, gives freedom to operate freely within reality. Submission to the rules that govern the mechanisms of the bike, and a subsequent mastery of these same rules, gives the rider the freedom to go wherever she wants to go (2 Samuel 7:9). But the bike never changes (Isaiah 40:8, Matthew 5:18), and whether it gives us pain or joy depends solely on whether we know how to ride it (Joshua 1:8). God's law (that's natural law see our articles on Logos and YHWH) is perfectly impartial and rigid, rather like a machine, kind of like a bike, and a bike can be a hideous source of pain ( Romans 3:20) or it can be a delightful source of joy (Psalm 119:97). In English we can use the word freedom for both the mastery of a governing law and the absence of such a law, but our word ελευθερια ( eleutheria) only describes the freedom that comes from the mastery of a governing law. not having language), is like darkness, not the opposite of light but the absence of it. ![]() ![]() The opposite, namely freedom from language (i.e. Our word ελευθερια ( eleutheria) describes a freedom like "freedom of speech", which can only be enjoyed when we submit to the rules that govern language and subsequently obtain the ability to say whatever we want. The adjective ελευθερος ( eleutheros) means free, and its derived noun ελευθερια ( eleutheria) means freedom, but, crucially, not a freedom through the absence of law but rather a freedom through mastery of law. ![]()
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