Moving On

When children are old enough, it is no longer healthy for them to be subjected to life under their parents' rule. Contrast this with the organization of religious organizations where the system has one or more people in charge of each group. While the progression of life is to set the offspring up for success in life, we do not find such development in chruches or other religions. These systems are designed and intended to operate by the followers continually subjecting themselves to the teaching and decisions of, in many cases, self-appointed leaders. Those that become disaffected with following will often branch out on their own, establishing their own system which places themselves as the leaders. There is no freedom in the system. There can't be, it cannot sustain itself any other way.

Purpose of Life

"There is no spoon." -Spoon boy, The Matrix

When learning about grace, many struggle without limits. Questions arise from the fear of being limitless and the belief that commandment is what kept us from sin in the first place. However, the life of one burdened by sin is consumed in struggling to free themselves​ from that burden. Commandment is the ruler with which we measure our own efforts. It continued to keep us enslaved and under the burden. Now, freed from the burden by another's efforts, why would we continue to evaluate our own to continually work ourselves free of a burden that is no longer there? That thought ignores that freedom has changed our purpose; no longer to free ourselves, but to be free.

The questions try and tie us back to the framework of having a metric, a measurement to evaluate our progress in freeing ourselves from the burden. But we can't ask, "What burden?" without offending those who still find their value in a purpose of freeing themselves. While we are free to compare our respective efforts to measure up, this is not the purpose of freedom. Neither is the purpose of freedom to step over a line to break commandments, because then we do it all in reference to the commandment rather than in reference to freedom.

Drawing Lines

Where do you draw the line?

When do you start to see the separations?

What are the limits?

Comparison is judgment
Excluding is judgment
Including is judgment
So then, what is righteous judgment?