Does believing in God take away my freedom? Is that to make the leap to believe in God will imprison me?
According to the Bible, freedom is more complicated than we think. From the biblical point of view, freedom is not unrestricted, but the presence of restrictions in our good nature. The fish are free when operating in an environment that is consistent with their nature: while in the grass, they are not free, but choke, whereas when in the water, they are free as a fish Water!
Thus, freedom is not absolute absence of any restriction, but the presence of restrictions based on our good nature. According to the Bible, man was made in the image of God, and the consequence is that it is truly free when he has the image of God.
The problem is that man rebelled against God, and the consequence is that he is now unable to live up to that image. That is why Jesus said that "everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin."
Sin is the fact to live in rebellion against God. And we are all well: in rebellion against our Creator, so that true freedom is to live according to God's image.
In fact, if one wants to believe that we can be free without God is to be like the captain of a ship sailing with the cards he has made himself. Dangerous places are not marked on it, and one day he wrecked. It's invent our own truth, rather than to believe in universal truth.
And at the risk of disappointing you, none of us here is truly free: we've all caught a cold, and we will all die. These are things that we do not want, yet we can not free ourselves. When you have a cold, we are slaves of a tiny microbe!
All we want to be free, freedom does not depend on us. Being free is not only an illusion if we accept to live according to our nature, in God's image.
Jesus lost his freedom so that we are free. He died to free us from our rebellion against God. The consequence is that the image of God is restored in those who know the benefit of his sacrifice. So, ready to become free?
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