Abstract
Human freedom as well as the sovereignty and love of God are at the heart of the Christian worldview. What is arguably the central verse of the Bible (John 3:16) states that “whosoever will” may unite with the One God. This phrase, of course, assumes that humans possess the freedom to choose for good or for evil. If God so valued human freedom and thus our ability to choose to align our ways with His, how dare we seek to violate the freedom of our fellow creatures? And yet we do this so easily and so frequently!
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Notes
Richard S. Emrich, Earth Might Be Fair (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1945), 78.
Jacques Ellul, The Ethics of Freedom (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1976), 187–189, 191, 193.
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Ringenberg, W.C. (2016). Freedom. In: The Christian College and the Meaning of Academic Freedom. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137398338_1
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