A New Voice of Freedom

Some Random Thoughts on Addiction Part I If you have been following the podcasts, you realize by now that I believe everything, both of the temporal world and of the spiritual world is governed by law, by absolute, unalterable law. In addition, all laws governing our world have conditions and consequences, or according to the principle of causality, cause and effect. Conditions must be necessary a...

The Invisible God  PT II The purpose of faith in this life is to lead to a perfect knowledge of Christ: “2 Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, 3 According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: (2 Peter 1:2-3) Another purpose...

The Invisible God Pt I We should not overlook the power of an invisible God.  The imagination of man is far stronger than any idol made of wood, stone, or metal.   It requires no effort to go from ego-centric faith (faith in self) to ecto-centric faith (faith in others), but to move from ecto-centric faith to Theo-centric faith (faith in God) requires humility, both to achieve and to sustain. Only...

Natural Laws vs Spiritual Laws Pt II In Part I of Natural Laws vs Spiritual Laws, we discussed the effects of ignoring the laws of God. In Part II, we continue our definition of the distinction between natural law and spiritual law. It is easy for us to see the effects of natural law. Our scientists are quick to point out the principle of causality. No nation can prosper that does not encourage th...

Satan, Gates of The Garden of Eden John Milton was criticized for making such a fuss over Lucifer, who is seen by some as the main character of Paradise Lost, as the God of this world.  Except for the prophets Isaiah and John the Revelator, perhaps no one brings Satan more alive than John Milton.  The excerpt I have chosen is from Book IV of Paradise Lost. Satan has escaped hell by bargaining with...

Natural Laws vs Spiritual Laws Pt I The natural man blames God for calamity because he does not understand the natural consequences of law.  Prophecy is not given to violate the law.  The consequences of natural laws are deterministic. We live in a world of cause and effect as scientists so adeptly teach us.  Spiritual laws are also governed by cause and effect because the law of justice is absolu...

The Language of Abortion The day before yesterday my fourth great grandbaby was born. Mindy, the expectant mother to be and I were left alone, while she timed her contractions. Her husband, my grandson, was at work; my wife was away in another city on an errand. Mindy was eating an ice-cream cone. Mindy continued to check the app on her phone, measuring the time between contractions.  Mindy had be...

The Patterns of Captivity To understand freedom, we must understand the nature of captivity.   Related words are captive and capture. The general meaning is bondage, restraint, slave, hostage, servitude, subjection, confinement, custody, incarceration, The verb form is to seize, to wrest, to catch, to entrap, to ensnare. In the Bible forms of the word captivity are often used relating to Satan: · ...

LAW All laws are conditional. If laws were not conditional, we would have no freewill, agency, or liberty. We live in a wonderful world based on the principle of causality. For every cause there is an effect, and for every effect there is a cause. If we obey the conditions of law, we reap the consequences. As the scriptures so famously say, “If we sow the wind, we reap the whirlwind.” It is the la...

Paradise Lost: Grace This podcast entitled Grace is a continuation of Milton’s Epic Poem, Paradise Lost. Milton was an independent Christian thinker. He was not always in harmony with church or state. He preached divorce against the climate of his day and the only things that saved his life from the State were his blindness and his age. He fled London to escape the Black Plague and relied upon his...

Be in the World but not of the World Paradox is typical in Christian doctrine because we are pulled between two worlds: The temporal world and the spiritual world, the world of the physical body and the world of the spiritual body, the world of God and the world of Satan, the law of justice and the law of mercy, the world of temporal laws and the world of spiritual laws, the world of Babylon and t...

Linda, The Road to Power, Machiavellian Pragmatism, Rule #10, Feign Morality In Rule #10 Machiavelli urges the prince to feign morality and act above the law.  He said, “And it must be understood that a prince, and especially a new prince, cannot observe all those things which are considered good in men, being often obliged, in order to maintain the state, to act against faith, against charity, ag...

Pride vs Humility In the Middle Ages, Pride was identified as one of the Seven Deadly Sins. In the following Linda shall read four definitions of sin from the New Testament: 1.     ‘All unrighteousness is sin” (1 John 3:8) 2.     “Sin is the transgression of the law” (1 John 3:4) 3.     “To him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin” (James 4:17) 4.     “By the law is the know...

The Lord’s Prayer Most Christian children are taught to memorize The Lord’s Prayer. It has become a model for prayer. Children, of course, simply repeat it word for word without considering its meaning. Though it is good to memorize scripture, The Lord’s Prayer, I think, was given as a model or type to teach us the things that are important to pray for. Sometimes memorized prayers distance us from...

Milton’s Paradise Lost: Book III, Pt VI, Freewill Pt II This podcast entitle Freewill Pt II is a continuation of Freewill Pt I presented in Podcast 133. In this Podcast we complete the argument given by the Father to his Son Jesus Christ as he explains why we have freewill.  So will fall He and his faithless Progeny: whose fault? Whose but his own? ingrate, he had of me All he could have; I made h...

Temporal Law Vs. Spiritual Law Pt II Theoretical Science vs Practical Science In Part I of Temporal Law vs Spiritual Law, I focused on science. Because science rejects spiritual law and intelligent design and draws all of its conclusions from temporal law, they rely entirely upon the concept of an accidental universe.  Logic is a peculiar thing. We tend to think if we are logical, we are also righ...

Temporal Law Vs. Spiritual Law Pt I: The Nihilism of Science vs the Optimism of Christianity Is anything greater than law?  In this Podcast we shall talk about Temporal Law versus Spiritual law. God is the author of all laws, temporal and spiritual, though everything to God is spiritual. When we speak of temporal law, we speak of the laws of nature, the laws of science, the laws of temporal creati...

Machiavellian Pragmatism, Rule #13, The Common Defect in Man From Machiavelli’s Book, The Prince, I have extracted 40 rules suggested by Machiavelli on how to gain power and how to hold power. In my series, the Road to Power, I show how the politicians today is using the rules of Machiavelli to take over our government destroying our democratic republic and replacing it with socialism and the New...

Principle of Repentance Christ satisfied the law of justice which is absolute and unconditional only because he remained at-one-with Justice. Christ, obeying all that the Father commanded, remained perfect, or we would be forever lost.  Sometimes, perhaps, some of us Christians overlook the fact that the atonement would have meant nothing if Christ had violated the Law of Justice.  Christ could no...

Bk III, Pt V, Milton’s Paradise Lost: Freewill Pt I This is the Fifth in the series entitled Milton’s Paradise Lost. In Book I and II we have the War in Heaven.  Satan and his angels are cast out of Heaven. In Book II Satan escapes from Hell and travels toward earth. Those scenes are covered in Previous Podcasts. Today’s Podcast is from Book III. As Satan flies through Chaos and Night, he is Obser...

A Call to Liberty I call upon all Americans to return to the four laws of Freedom referred to in the previous Podcast: The First Law is The Law of Liberty (The Ten Commandments) The Second Law is The Perfect Law of Liberty (The Sermon on the Mount) The Third Law is The Law of Equality (God is no Respecter of Persons) The Fourth Law is The Royal Law (The Two Great Commandments) If the majority of A...

Four Laws of Liberty In previous podcasts we have identified the four primary laws of freedom. These were given to us by James in the New Testament. 1.     The Law of Liberty 2.     The Perfect Law of Liberty 3.     The Royal Law 4.     The Law of Equality The Law of Liberty, which I refer to as the First Law of Liberty, is the Ten Commandments. When the Children of Israel were led out of Egyptian...

Addictions There is no living creature on earth as complex, as gifted, or as intelligent as man.  Our immortal spirits are eternal. God is the father of our spirits. We are eternal beings.  We came from eternity, and we will return to eternity. We were born of divinity and divinity is our heritage.  Peter says. 1 Simon Peter, a servant, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained li...

Broken Covenants I remember standing alone on a beach in Valdez, Alaska.  Towering over me, propped up by long trembling timbers, was an old disintegrating derelict that was once a proud ocean vessel that had braved the icy northern seas. Now it was old and rotting and listing and would never float again.  On the rotting planks of the splintered stern was emblazoned its once proud name—COVENANT.  ...

Milton’s Paradise Lost: Satan, Sin, and Death In Pt II of Paradise Lost we discussed the wiles of the devil.  If you are new to Poet’s Corner, let me suggest that you go back to Season 3 Podcast 113 entitled Milton’s Paradise Lost Book I.  It serves as an introduction to Paradise Lost. Following Podcast 113 is Podcast 118, Introduction to Hell, followed by Podcast 128, The Wiles of the Devil. In t...