FREEDOM IS THE NEED OF OUR SOULS, AND NOTHING ELSE

Freedom is the need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after condition of freedom. God alone is insider and guarantor of freedom. He is the only guarantor....Whittaker Chambers, "Witness"	Fortunately External freedom is only an aspect of interior freedom. Political freedom, as the Western world is known it, is only a political reading of the Bible. Religion and freedom are indivisible.
ROMANS 13:1-10 IS A DIFFICULT PASSAGE TO UNDERSTAND	Without freedom the soul dies. Without the solar is no justification for freedom.  (Whittaker Chambers, "Witness" P 16)
World English Bible 1 Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for     there is no authority except from God, and those who be are ordained by God. 2 Therefore he who resists the authority, withstands the ordinance of God; and those who withstand will receive to themselves judgment. 3 For rulers are not a terror to the good work, but to the evil. Do you desire to have no fear of the authority? Do that which is good, and you will have praise from the same, 4 for he is a servant of God to you for good. But if you do that which is evil, be afraid, for he doesn`t bear the sword in vain; for he is a minister of God, an avenger for wrath to him who does evil. 5 Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience` sake. 6 For this reason you also pay taxes, for they are ministers of God`s service, attending continually on this very thing. 7 Give therefore to everyone what you owe: taxes to whom taxes are due; customs to whom customs; respect to whom respect; honor to whom honor. 8 Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law. 9 For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet," and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." 10 Love doesn`t harm his neighbor. Love therefore is the fulfillment of the law.	Hebrew and Greek (Westcott-Hort) Transliterated 1 pasa yuch exousiaiV uperecousaiV upotassesqw ou gar estin exousia ei mh upo qeou ai de ousai upo qeou tetagmenai eisin 2 wste o antitassomenoV th exousia th tou qeou diatagh anqesthken oi de anqesthkoteV eautoiV krima lhmyontai 3 oi gar arconteV ouk eisin foboV tw agaqw ergw alla tw kakw qeleiV de mh fobeisqai thn exousian to agaqon poiei kai exeiV epainon ex authV 4 qeou gar diakonoV estin soi eiV to agaqon ean de to kakon poihV fobou ou gar eikh thn macairan forei qeou gar diakonoV estin ekdikoV eiV orghn tw to kakon prassonti 5 dio anagkh upotassesqai ou monon dia thn orghn alla kai dia thn suneidhsin 6 dia touto gar kai forouV teleite leitourgoi gar qeou eisin eiV auto touto proskarterounteV 7 apodote pasin taV ofeilaV tw ton foron ton foron tw to teloV to teloV tw ton fobon ton fobon tw thn timhn thn timhn 8 mhdeni mhden ofeilete ei mh to allhlouV agapan o gar agapwn ton eteron nomon peplhrwken 9 to gar ou moiceuseiV ou foneuseiV ou kleyeiV ouk epiqumhseiV kai ei tiV etera entolh en tw logw toutw anakefalaioutai [en tw] agaphseiV ton plhsion sou wV seauton 10 h agaph tw plhsion kakon ouk ergazetai plhrwma oun nomou h agaph
(pasa psuch). As in 2 Timothy 2:9; Acts 2:43. A Hebraism for paß anqrwpoß (every man). To the higher powers (exousiaiß uperecousaiß). Abstract for concrete. See Mark 2:10 for exousia. Huperecw is an old verb to have or hold over, to be above or supreme, as in 1 Peter 2:13. Except by God (ei mh upo qeou). So the best MSS. rather than apo qeou (from God).            God is the author of order, not anarchy. The powers that be (ai ousai). "The existing authorities" (supply exousiai). Art ordained (tetagmenai eisin). Periphrastic perfect passive indicative of tassw, "stand ordained by God."  Paul is not arguing for the divine right of kings or for any special form of government, but for government and order. Nor does he oppose here revolution for a change of government, but he does oppose all lawlessness and disorder "Humanism, for all his talk about freedom, can present no philosophical framework to justify freedom.	(qeou diakonoß). General sense of diakonoß. Of course even Nero was God's minister "to thee (soi ethical dative) for good (eiß to agaqon, for the good)." That is the ideal, the goal. Beareth (porei). Present active indicative of porew, old frequentative form of perw, to bear, to wear. But if thou do (ean de poihß). Condition of third class, ean and present active subjunctive of poiew, "if thou continue to do." Sword (macairan). Symbol of authority as to-day policemen carry clubs or pistols. "The Emperor Trajan presented to a provincial governor on starting for his province, a dagger, with the words, 'For me. If I deserve it, in me'" (Vincent). An avenger (ekdikoß).  Old adjective from ek and dikh (right), "outside of penalty," unjust, then in later Greek "exacting penalty from one," in N.T. only here and 1 Thessalonians 4:6.
How can we say that men have human rights and there are not bestowed upon him by his creator?	On what basis do we say that the state is limited if God himself is not limited it?
When--in the name of freedom!--The humanist tear away the Christian freedoms of this country, they actually destroy the only philosophical foundation upon which true freedom can be sustained."   most of what I quote is from  Dr John Eidsmoe's "GOD AND CAESAR" pp. 85-86	In yet, desirable though it may be, liberty needs restraint. One might think that anarchy involves total freedom, but in reality it involves a total destruction of freedom. For without restraint men will destroy one another's freedoms by killing each other, stealing from one another, enslaving one another and exploiting one another. The reason, quite obviously, is a basic human condition: sin." Dr. John Eidsmoe

               Dr. Eidsmoe continues: "to restrain man's sin nature's and safeguard human freedom, governments are established.

 To be effective, governments have to have power but governmental power has to be restrained, for the same reason that individual liberty has to be restrained--the fact of sin. For rulers are just as simple as their subjects. Given absolute and unrestrained power, they will use up our incorrupt and despotic ways." John Eidsmoe, "GOD & CAESAR" pp.85,86

"But what is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, either external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself." James Madison

"It's necessary, therefore, that all power that is on her be limited, church power or other.... It's counted a matter of danger to the state to limit prerogatives, but it is further danger not to have them limited; they will be like a tempest if they are not limited.... It is therefore fit for every man then to be studious of the bounds which the Lord has set; and for the people, in whom fundamentally all power lies, to give as much power as God in his Word gives to men.... All entrenchment upon the bounds which God hath not given, they are not enlargements, but burdens and snares." John Cotton

               "Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely!" 

             So then power must be diluted. And that's exactly what the framers of the Constitution did--by separating and dividing the powers of government among various individuals and groups, so that no one individual or group had too much power. Each individual or group jealous of its own power, battles against the encroachments of power by the other branches.

             If that doesn't demonstrate that the framers didn't believe in the depravity of man.  ALL ARE SINNERS! INCLUDING ALL POLITICIANS. 

               Another way that power was diluted was to shrink the power groups. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people." The 10th amendment to the Constitution

               That Dilution of Power, according to the Constitution and Bill of Rights guarantees are God-given rights that cannot be abridged or taken away, whether they be in the majority or in the minority. We have the right of religion, the right to bear arms to defend ourselves, the right to freedom of speech, the right to privacy from illegal search and seizure, the right to trial by jury, and many others.

               Power was diluted so that no individual or group received too much power--even the people as a whole! They never intended the United States should be up your direct democracy in which the majority can do anything it pleases. Rather they intended a constitutional republic in which the rights of the majority are protected from the tyranny of the majority, and the rights of the minority are protected from the tyranny of the majority.. The Constitution, not the people, was the supreme law of the land. But above everything they believe that men have rights, not because government has chosen to grant certain rights, but because God has created Everyman with human dignity and has bestowed upon him certain basic rights as a part of that human dignity. 

The purpose of government is to secure these rights" (quoting the Declaration of Independence), not grant them.