There are
two kinds of theological tendencies in this whole marriage love. If you
believe that in order for your will to be at liberty that you must be
able to have good on one side and evil on the other there is not
tendency toward either side so that you can determine yourself the
choice that you want to make. This is not a free will. This is no will
at all. In this paradigm there really is no will being exercised.
Liberty desiring one thing over another so that the object you desire is
what you get. The view of the mind of the object and the degree of its
pleasure makes the possibility for the will to act on the object. The
will does not determine the choice of the object but the mind does. The
will is the instrument of the mind. This difference has a great impact
on how one views his practical choices including marriage. If you believe
that liberty is the will subsisting between good and evil without any
inclination to either one and that is freedom then you are going to
place the power of choice on the object because the will has no power to
choose in itself. Your believing in the armininst view of liberty will
work out in you marriage. You will sorta let go and let God. And that
will be the paradigm that you think is liberty. Liberty in the
calvinistic fashion is choosing according to what pleases you most. So
there is no room for the object of be an excuse for your choosing. The
focus will be on the inside, on the motives, on the heart. It will not
be on the power of the object as a focus. So you will be free to love
because you will not be concentrating on the physical and swallowing a
camel while slapping at a nat. There is more liberty in heaven where
there is no evil then there is on earth where there is evil.
Monday, October 26, 2020
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