Freedom of Choice

Without a sovereign soul there is no free choice, and without free choice, there is no creation.

A sovereign soul does not answer to an external God, a personal God, who is responsible for all creation, who set the laws of good and bad to which we all aspire. If our only CHOICE is to abide by God's laws or not, or to create what pleases God or not, then we do not in fact have free choice. Our laws, our right and wrong, our creation, must be all our own, or these choices are not free. The RIGHT choice must not be predetermined or else it is not a CHOICE at all but is, rather, merely an elaborate correct answer on some great test designed by a separate, omniscient consciousness.

On the other hand, if we are only organic machines, plumbing and wiring with a computer brain to run it all, then we are not free. If we are merely evolutionary respondents to some primal tic, we are not free. If our CHOICES are merely RESPONSES to some genome, to some evolutionary desire to survive and procreate, then this is not freedom. Either our choices are sovereign, are original, come from US and not some reaction, or they are not. They cannot be both.

Therefore, the machinery of us, our brains and our loins and our skin, merely responds to the soul, which is the origin of all creation. Without a sovereign soul, without something free of the ineluctable, Newtonian response of action and reaction, or chemical compounds, or genetic code, without this eternal, sovereign force energy, we are not free. We are just responses.

I reject any idea that claims I am anything but free. I reject I as the machine. I reject I as the servant of an external God. I am I. I am sovereign. I was put here to create, and unless I am free, I am either responding or answering a test. There is no right answer to life. And life is not some cold, unavoidable response. Life is original. Every moment as original as the one that came before.