Moral Libertinism & Self-Interest Freedom: Enslavement Of Other People

Baipeng Huang Professor Whitelock UCOR 2100 Date Freedom Throughout the Holy Bible, freedom is well explained and the idea can be used to explain Western civilization. In the Old Testament, freedom typically means not enslaved or imprisoned (Acts 26:32). Additionally, there are specific Jewish laws about when to let a slave go or be free or what should be done when a slave fails to be set free (1 Corinthians 7:23). Paul, through his books or letters in the Bible, including 1 Corinthians and 1 Thessalonians, the theme of freedom or Western civilization is well illustrated. Paul’s idea of freedom is like the concept of western civilization because both emphasize on freedom from self-interest and moral libertinism and enslavement. The work focuses on how Paul used images during his time to bring out the idea of freedom and how he would use modern images to describe the theme if he were writing today. In St. Paul’s teaching, especially his letters to different churches were about freedom as well as unity in Christ. He targeted Galatians who were misinformed. His 14 letters, although bible scholars assign him seven, can be divided into early letters, considerably great letters, captive letters and pastoral letters. 1 and 2 Thessalonians were Paul’s early letters while 1 and 2 Corinthians, Romans, Galatians, and Philippians are considered as St, Paul’s great letters. Captive letters are Philemon, Ephesians, and Colossians and pastoral books were Titus, and 1 and 2 Timothy. In all his letters, he addressed Christians whose preoccupation with keeping the law was splitting the church along racial lines, splitting the Jews and the Gentiles. This challenge is still common in the modern era as some individuals are trying to divide people along racial and ethnical lines but the understanding of western civilization is that we are all equal before the Creator. False teachers were teaching that people needed the work of the law because faith alone cannot work. His teaching about freedom emphasized libertinism, self-interest, and enslavement of others, just like western civilization presumes the ideas. Moral Libertinism Freedom Libertinism refers to an extreme type of hedonism. This is because libertines value physical pleasures more, referring to those experienced via the senses. In Galatia, Paul was urging the non-Jewish Christians to shun away from “enslavement” to specific Torah applications. Such include the requirement of circumcision or rules for food which had, again and again, led to a big rift in the Antioch as shown in Galatians 3 (Bruce, 4). The concept of Western Civilization also uses the same notion that people should not cause conflicts and rifts because of differences in their personal beliefs such as cultures, origin, skin color, language or ethnicity. Instead, by their faithful respects and obedience to Christ, which is what brings them together as a unifying factor, they were all already Abraham’s heirs (Galatians 3:15-18). Thus, like Sarah’s, “free woman,” children, they are free and not Hagar’s, “slave woman,” children (Galatians 4:21-31). However, the teachings of Paul on freedom were widely misinterpreted. Just like most people who follow the culture of Western Civilization. Corinthian Christians c...