Personal Freedom As Idolatry

There isn’t anything more revered in our culture 
     Than the individual’s freedom and exercise of “Personal Choice”

All ethics, laws, worldviews and theologies (Truth)
     Are measured by it and placed in subjection under it -

Ironically, lacquered by a very thin veneer with
     What we have learned to call “justice”
And firmly established on the simple pretext that we might offend

The disintegrating nature of The Fall is to make us
     Faithfully Hell-bent, on a kind of autonomous* antinomianism**

Truth and Justice relativized makes despotic gods of us all

*Autonomous = “Self-Rule”
**Antinomianism = “Against Moral Laws”

Words of Truth, in Addition to The Sermon on the Mount

1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God--

5 having a form of godliness but denying its power... 7 always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth. deceiving and being deceived…

14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, 15 and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

2 Timothy 3:1-7; 13-17