The document discusses the relationship between freedom and laws/commandments. It argues that the first 3 commandments are positive and the last 7 are negative, but the negative commandments serve to protect positive values like life and property. Total freedom without responsibilities to others results in anarchy, not true freedom. Well-defined laws create boundaries for right and wrong that uphold justice and freedom for all. True freedom elevates people rather than demeaning them and is not license without limits, but rather serves what is good, just and true.

2. God's intention
in giving the Ten
Commandments
Increase freedom

3. 1-3 commandments are
positive
4-10 commandments are
negative
Negative laws are also
needed to achieve
positive goals in human
society.

4. For example:
By forbidding murder -------all are free to live.
For example:
By forbidding stealing -------all are free to possess
property without fear.
Each negative is for the protection of a
positive value.

5. Is Freedom absolute or not???

6. Total freedom is when every man
does what is right in his own
eyes, and has no responsibility
for the rights of others.
absolute individualism,
which is anarchy

7. Freedom is a gift from God

9. Self-less

10. Less self-gratified

11. Less self-centered

12. Remove the negative
and you destroy the
power of the positive.

13. When the Ten Commandments are seen
in the proper perspective they become
foundations for freedom, and not
hindrances to freedom.

14. What is the relationship
of law and freedom?

15.  Laws are sets of rules and principles
regulating the people and the state.
Everyone is held accountable.

16.  Laws create boundaries between right
and wrong both morally and legally,
punish those deserving of punishment
and serve justice to those being wronged.

19. Arguments against Freedom
Genetics
Fate
Astrology
Psychological Factors
Environment

20. “He who excuses himself
accuses himself.”
Gabriel Meurier

21. 2 TYPES OF FREEDOM:
1. External Freedom
External Freedom
includes freedom from
factors outside ourselves that
threaten or destroy our power
to exercise choice.
Harsh Government
PovertyIllness

22. Internal Freedom…
Internal Freedom
includes freedom from
interior factors that limit
choice.
Addiction
Fear

24. Freedom is
not…
 Something we exercise
only in regard to
ourselves, solipsistically,
egoistically.
Solipsism is t he view or
t heory t hat t he self is all
t hat can be known t o
exist .

25. In his "Stanzas on Freedom," the American
Romantic poet and abolitionist James
Russell Lowell asked this question:

26. “True freedom
elevates humans;
it never
demeans.”

27. True freedom is not license.
License is unbridled, excessive,
undisciplined freedom that abuses
true liberty.

28. By deviating from the
moral law, man violates
his own freedom,
becomes imprisoned
within himself, disrupts
neighborly fellowship, and
rebels against divine truth.

29. True freedom serves what is
good, just and true.

31. “Imputable” is another word for
“accountable”…
“Culpability” is another word for
“blameworthiness”…

40. "The end of the law is not
to abolish or restrain,
but to preserve and
enlarge freedom.“
-John Locke