A New Voice of Freedom

The Face of Tyranny  The rise of fear is another sign that liberty is being lost.  The Social Democrats in Washington are creating an atmosphere of fear.  “You can’t do it alone,” Obama said.  Students should not have to work and go to college too.  Government should take care of the poor, guarantee equal lifestyles, guarantee homes, guarantee health care, guarantee material equality.  To the Soci...

Consciousness In this podcast I want to explain why we are more than biological machines and thus why we have freewill.  It is only the spirit that is conscious. Man has consciousness, not machines.  The body of man, however, is a biological machine.  The brain is part of that machine. The body of man does not have consciousness; hence the body does not have freewill.  Only the spirit or soul of m...

Nature and Freedom It is ironic that science, by expanding our understanding of natural laws, actually increases our freedom, yet it is science that denies the existence of freewill.  It is part of their Flatland mentality.  Even a cursory study of nature shows how all life forms are designed for their maximum freedom.  Study the hawk and see how it spreads its confident wings in the azure sky and...

Sanctification We cannot sanctify ourselves because we cannot live the law of justice.  Christ must sanctify us through the law of mercy and his grace.  Law is an extension of God’s perfection, and those who obey his laws draw closer to God because they become more like God.   That is what John meant when he said: “2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be:...

Totalitarianism I am speaking primarily of the elements of totalitarianism and progressivism.  Totalitarianism includes socialism, liberalism, Marxism, communism, fascism, racism, tribalism, and political correctness.  The elements of progressivism are humanism, Darwinism, hedonism, secularism, cynicism, libertarianism, atheism, and naturalism. Both totalitarianism and progressivism encourage our...

VIRTUES AND VICES In 1st Peter the following virtues are listed:  sanctification, obedience, mercy, hope, faith, trial of our faith, sober, hope to the end, grace, holiness, no respect of persons, purification, love, pure heart, born again, laying aside malice, guile, hypocrisies, envies, evil speakings; desire the sincere milk of the word, chosen generation, royal priesthood, holy nation, peculia...

Why the Fall of Adam was Necessary Agency is at the core of everything God does. It explains the paradox of the Garden of Eden. Without the fall the spirits in heaven could not have the earthly experience. Without the earthly experience, mankind could not comprehend God, mankind could not have agency, and mankind could not become like God.  However, it must be his choice. Satan is necessary for th...

A Call to Christians As I have said repeatedly in these Podcasts, there is only one law of liberty, and that law of liberty is The Ten Commandments. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 1.      Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. 2.       Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain. 3.       Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 4.       Honour thy father and thy...

DNA and Freewill One of the great scientific breakthroughs of our day is the discovery of the genetic code.  However, rather than seeing the exquisite information system as evidence of intelligent design, evolutionists delight in using DNA as evidence that God is unnecessary.  There is a parallel. All the arguments against the existence of God follow the same pattern: ·         Laws exist; therefo...

Thanksgiving with the Family Everything on earth is a type of things in heaven.  Heaven casts its long shadow on earth.  Earth is meant to be an imitation of heaven.  The teachings of Christ were given to us to make earth a paradise.  It is Satan who, living in misery himself, wants to make it a hell. Paul teaches us,  “Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by gr...

Gratitude When I want a synonym, I always turn to J.I. Rodale’s The Synonym Finder. The book offers the following synonyms for gratitude: gratefulness, thankfulness, sense of obligation, feeling of obligedness, beholdenness, recognition, acknowledgment, thanksgiving, giving thanks, praise, benediction, thank-offering, requital, grace, a lively sense of favors to come.   But of course words branch...

Virtues and Vices The Apostle Paul understood the war between virtue and vice. Please read Ephesians 6  beginning with verse 10: “ 10  Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. 11  Put onthe whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, a...

The Innocence of Perfection Christ did not cheat justice by atoning for our sins.  He satisfied justice by sacrificing his own perfect life for our sins, the pure for the impure, the righteous for the unrighteous, the innocent for the guilty, the perfect for the imperfect, and the just for the unjust.  He bought us with his blood.   Christ did not die because of Roman law or because of the deceit...

Season 2 Podcast 65 Tyranny of Conscience If it surprises you that atheism is a religion think back on their tactics.  Atheism has apostles every bit as committed as Paul.  Before Damascus, Paul, who sought the death of Christians, followed the traditions of his fathers.  After Damascus, Paul followed the revelations of Christ and sought to win souls for Christ.    In both cases Paul followed his...

Truth and Light Truth is found wherever there is the light of Christ and the laws of God. We are all children of God.  God is called the Father of Lights.  To inherit the kingdom of God, we must become children of light. Wherever truth is found, God is found.  Wherever God’s hand is found, truth is found in greater abundance.  We must gather truth until we have a fullness.  All who are born on thi...

Classification of Law Only that which is spiritual will endure. Paul said, “17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” (2 Corinthians 5:17) Everything that is subject to temporal law will ultimately pass away, such as the earth:   “2 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being...

The Search for Truth   The press was once upon a time America’s watchdog, and freedom of the press was as important as the army.  A press which once defended its rights to free speech with loud voices and heroic acts has now given up those rights without a whimper. Rather than remain the watchdog over Washington, there is collusion between the press and the liberal left they support.  Truth is dis...

The Tragic Flaw Most tragedies, like a Greek drama, are staged in advance, one tragic event inevitably following the other due to the main character’s central weakness.  A tragic flaw is an inherent weakness, such as excessive pride in the hero or protagonist that leads to inevitable ruin. The primary question is freewill versus determinism. Does the protagonist have freewill, and could the traged...

Humanism and the New World Order By denying that truths are self-evident, we, as a nation, are denying the absolute nature of truth, thus giving the government the liberty to redefine morality. Modern society, however, has entirely moved away from self-evident truth.  They no longer acknowledge gender as a self-evident truth.  Liberals are now proposing with government support that schools as earl...

Essential Attributes of God The six primary attributes of God are omniscience, omnipotence, omnipresence, justice, mercy, and perfection.  They can be translated to truth, light, law, power, grace, and virtue 1.      Omniscience includes all knowledge and wisdom, which is truth 2.      Omnipotence includes all power, which is light. 3.      Omnipresence includes light and laws that emanate from Go...

Knowledge Knowledge of man gives us pause; however, knowledge of God gives us purpose.  Knowledge of science gives us access to unlimited choices; knowledge of good and evil gives us wisdom to make those choices. Knowledge of man allows us to make balanced laws to govern those choices that we may retain our liberty, yet live together in harmony, not in discord; knowledge of God allows us to combin...

A Season 2 Podcast 57 The Precious Bane Part II In George Orwell’s first novel, Burmese Days, we are introduced to the protagonist John Flory, in the following way: “The first thing that one noticed in Flory was a hideous birthmark stretching in a ragged crescent down his left cheek, from the eye to the corner of the mouth.  Seen from the left side his face had a battered, woebegone look, as thoug...

Season 2 Podcast 56 The Precious Bane Part I In Book I of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Satan and his angels are cast out of heaven. Satan in awful majesty rises out of the lake of fire and exclaims: Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime, Said then the lost Arch-Angel, this the seat That we must change for Heav'n, this mournful gloom For that celestial light?   Be it so, since he Who no...

Season 2 Podcast 55, "This Melting World." Science can use math to explain what law does, but science cannot use math to invent law or to understand what a law is or where laws come from.  The highest achievement of science is the invention of language to explain the patterns of law.  In other words, the highest achievement of science is the invention of math. God does not use math to cr...

Season 2 Podcast 54 Common Sense Once upon a time common sense ruled the world until universities were invented which declared common sense a heresy and replaced it with political correctness.  Common sense is nothing more than law learned through experience and confirmed by the actions of ordinary people.  Often it is stated in aphorisms: “a penny saved is a penny earned.”The Proverbs of Solomon...