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THE MEANING OF LIBERTY

AND THE MESSAGE OF REMEDY

 

REMEDY IS -

AND VICTORY GOES WITH IT

 

 

 

 

Rev. Dr. Robert E. Donaldson

 

 

Published by World Wide Web Witness

September 2004

ISBN 0 9756840 1 9

 

 

 

PREFACE

 

Remedy in the domain of man is for sin

selfishness, squalor, suffering,

seediness, silliness,

seduction, servitude,

slavery, subtlety in subversion,

spawn of violence, vileness and viciousness,

species of pride, vanity, degradation, depravity,

socialistic superficiality, splendiferous without spiritual link to the Author,

communistic contempt of truth, pragmatically pursuing unscientific squalor,

spiritual self-aggrandisement, delusion and death,

severity of judgment

certitude of hell

severance

of peace, meaning, mastery, manhood, womanhood and childhood
from virtue,

of joy that is inherent, of self-control, certainty,

from the race,

indeed from the entire domain of mankind.

 

The problem is human,

The solution is divine;

just as the creation was divine,

and the desecration was human.

 

Now that desecration is systematic

as is the restitution available in

the remedy.

 

The remedy is as old as man,

as new as AD, in the year of our Lord,

as contemporaneous as the presence of the Spirit of God

in each new child of God.

 

Man is personal
(cf. It Bubbles... Ch. 9, Little Things Ch. 5, Overflight in Christ   1),

and so is the remedy.

 

Liberty can opt for slavery,

while love appointed the service that remedy is.

 

The liberty is human,

the love is divine.

 

This work involves a collection, which may at times be amplified significantly or revised a little for our present purpose, with such additions as seem best, of many treatments of this topic, in this way and in that, which have occurred in the 85 volumes currently written for the series, IN PRAISE OF CHRIST JESUS, a biblical Christian Apologetic which not merely defends the truth, but shows that there both is and can be no other. Truth like life, is what it is.

You can talk a lot; but you won't change it.

You can do a lot; but you won't change it.

It continues unchanged over the millenia, self-attesting by its single and singular validity, its empirical triumphs and its unaltering ability, nay facility in dealing with all topics at all times. Given by God, it neither removes the need of human thought, nor fails to be its only rational basis.

Note that all chapters may vary considerably from their originals, by addition or revision to meet our present purpose. Nevertheless, the essential character of each remains. Occasionally excerpts are given.

 

CONTENTS

 

                                        Chapter 1           

                            THE STARK REALITY OF REMEDY

                                         from The Shadow of a Mighty Rock pp. 36ff.

 

Chapter 2                      

                                       LIBERTY IS SO VERY HUMAN,
                                ITS GIFT SO WHOLESOMELY DIVINE
                                        

  from Little Things Ch. 5,
  Little Things have Spiritual Wings

 

       Chapter 3                                 

                                             TO PUT IT PLAINLY,
                              THE INVISIBLE IS THE MOST MANIFEST

                                         from It Bubbles, It Howls, He Calls ... Ch. 9

 

                                                     Chapter 4                           

 

                                        BEYOND THE DUSTY CONFLICT,
                                    LOOKING AT MAN AND HIS LIBERTY


                                                  from Predestination and Freewill Section I

 

Chapter 5                                    

                                             THE TRUTH HURTS
                          ONLY WHEN YOU ARE INTOLERANT OF IT

                                                from Sparkling Life in Jesus Christ Ch. 4

How Reasonable the Lord is!
who makes revelation apparent, and reason a work for wonder at His glory!

 

Chapter 6                   

LIBERTY IS FOUND INTACT

 ONLY IN GOD

         AND WHERE HE DOWERS IT

                                            from Calibrating Myths, Machining Minds and Keeping Faith Ch. 6

 

 Chapter 7     

                                             TO IMAGINE NO REMEDY

                                      IS TO IMAGINE THE IMPOSSIBLE

FINE! SO LONG AS YOU REALISE
THE NEGATIVE MYTH IS MERE IMAGINATION

from News 122

 

Chapter 8

CALL to the COHORTS   of the

CONFUSED, CAPTURED AND CONDITIONED -

from Repent or Perish Ch. 7

 

Chapter 9

WILLOWY WORSHIP WEARS WOEFULLY

An Excerpt from Beauty of Holiness Ch. 4

 

Chapter 10

THE VIRTUE OF VALIDITY AND WHAT IT VALIDATES

from TMR Ch. 5

 

Chapter 11

REPENTANCE TO THE ULTIMATE REALISM

from Ch. 2 of Repent or Perish

 

Chapter 12

COMMANDS ARE NOT MERE CONVENIENCE

BUT THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGALITY

from Let God be God Ch. 6

 

            EPILOGUE

WAR ON SIN

 

The Divine Declaration of War on Sin

the Divine Deliverance and

and the Victory that Goes with It

 

APPENDIX

Gaining Perspective as from a Peak