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THE PROBLEM OF FREEDOM

by Ray Shelton

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I.  THE STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

What is freedom?  In the history of western thought, the concept of freedom has been developed in three different areas:

A.  The philosophical area

B.  The social and political area

C.  The theological area


II.  ANALYSIS OF THE PROBLEM
Historical Analysis:

A.  The philosophical area

1.  Democritus

2.  Epicurus

3.  Lucretius

4.  Diodorus of Cronos

5.  Aristotle

6.  Neoplatonic

7.  Stoicism

8.  Carneades

9.  Hobbes

10.  Descartes

11.  Laplace

12.  Spinoza

13.  Quantum Mechanics

14.  Einstein


B.  The social and political area

1.  David Hume

2.  John Stuart Mill


C.  The theological area

1.  Augustine

2.  Thomas Aquinas

3.  Avicenna

4.  Duns Scotus

5.  Martin Luther

6.  John Calvin


III.  CLUE TO THE SOLUTION
What is freedom?

A.  The philosophical concept

B.  The social and political concept

C.  The theological concept


IV.  SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEM

A.  THE MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE ORIGIN OF SIN

B.  THE ORIGIN OF SIN

C.  THE NEED FOR SALVATION

D.  THE BONDAGE OF SIN

E.  GOD’S SOVEREIGNTY

F.  MONERGISM

G.  LEGALISM

H.  SALVATION BY GRACE

I.  THE DEATH OF CHRIST

J.  THREE ASPECTS OF SALVATION

K.  SALVATION OF ALL MEN

 

V.  CONCLUSION

The freedom from death and sin is not the only freedom that the New Testament speaks of;  it also speaks of the freedom from the law.
Click HERE to read what Paul says in his letter to the Galations about the Christian freedom from the law.   And click HERE to study the Christian relation to the law.

“For freedom Christ has set us free; stand fast therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.”    (Galatians 5:1)

“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.”    (II Cor. 3:17)

Freedom from death, from sin and from the law.