We must state here at the beginning that the central point that all this pivots on is the Free Will of Man. We see this very clearly when God gave Mankind the freedom to choose. You see the most important and most powerful thing on the Earth today is Man's Free Will.
Why is this so? Let’s reflect a minute.
We stated earlier that a person has a free will to choose whatever they like. At the same time though each person is likely to decide to do something that will disadvantage some else. This is because each of us are set on looking after ourselves first and then maybe someone else. The reason is because each of us are concerned about self-preservation.
Here we come back to boundaries. If each of us honoured each other’s boundaries then life would be full of happiness. The trouble is each person’s boundaries are different so; it is really difficult not cross the other person’s boundaries as we go about our daily lives. Well, the simple answer is to agree on common boundaries. Here again is the difficulty in deciding what is the common level playing field. The only safe way is to have someone outside of the human race decide and here we are left with only two solutions.
The Creator or His Adversary who wants to take down all that The Creator has made. Once again, we have to come back to Bible terms to find an answer. If you are really serious in finding a solution, then you need to decide that may be the Bible has an answer. I am not asking you just swallow everything some serves up, but I would like you at least hear my answer to this problem and be free to decide for yourself.
So let me restate what has been presented so far.
A person’s free will gets them in to trouble because they are likely to overstep another person’s boundaries and interfere with the freedom, we all want. This self-preservation that we all have is most likely to overstep another person’s boundary because we can’t see the other person’s boundary.
Trying to come up with a common set of boundaries is quite impossible unless we all agree to someone outside making the boundaries for us. The free choice to step inside this framework of defined boundaries is something that we desire but don’t know how to achieve.
Finally, this inability to so easily overstep other’s boundaries is defined as sin. Sin is just missing the mark of the Standard that has been set by the Boundaries decided by The Creator. If you accept the way of The Creator, then keep reading. You can just go your merry way as you are, but you are following the way of The Adversary.
So where does this leave us now? Man is still separated from God and because the sin has not been dealt with. You can only make the best decision by using your ability to discern the facts.
It doesn't matter who you are if you make any decision by your own efforts, you are sinning and not living up to that Standard. Reaching this Standard can only come through a personal relationship with Jesus - The Time Traveller.
Now you might say, "I don't need Jesus", and that is your free choice. Although for just one minute think about those deep, dark moments when you wished you hadn't done a certain thing. You knew that you had a choice and you really didn't want to act that way, but you just did it anyway.
These are the times that later you wished you could go back and change the way you acted but it has happened, and you are suffering the consequences now. Every day we make stupid decisions that we wish later that if we could make a different decision. This is where The Time Traveller can come in and make it as though these things never happened. Your Past can never be erased but that Past can be altered to be of no effect in the Present.
If you remember earlier, I talked about why we can't help ourselves when we make these 'silly' mistakes. It is because we inherently want to handle the affairs of life on our own and hope it works out. You might remember that we talked about you trying to "fix it myself" and even if we try to be the best we can it often is not enough.
The gift of having 'Our Past' dealt with so as not to affect us adversely can only come through a personal relationship with The Time Traveller. Jesus has stepped back in time and paid, cancelled the Sin of ‘Do It Myself”. All of us fall under this behaviour of "looking after oneself".
No matter what you do you will never be able to change those things of your Past that haunt you in those dark moments of despair. You can try to fill your life with all sorts of things, but those dark moments will always be there. Jesus is the only one that can step in between you and your Past and give you relief from those troubling thoughts.
You can be free, but you can't do it by yourself.
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Yours Respectfully,
PaulT
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