Do the moral laws of Christianity stifle us? OR Is God a cosmic killjoy?
This is meant to be a follow up to my last post, which discusses freedom under Christ. Now I want to flip the discussion. Do the moral laws that God passed down to us that Jews and Christians follow stifle our lives? Is God a cosmic killjoy? As a Christian, my obvious answer is no, and I would like to take this post and try to explain why. There are plenty of people that will object to Christians as prudes for not “having fun” in general, and they will probably have some examples in mind, even “progressive Christians”. A lot of people will mock Christians for not partaking in all of what today’s society has to offer, in drinking, sexual promiscuity, moral relativity, and so on. The problem is that they have this idea of a God who loves us and wants to be our friend by letting us do what we want. This view has been created by Satan, distorting the message that God loves us into something that makes people think that God is subservient to our will. Go