Liberal arts are designed to set men free. They are the tools of liberty for free men and women. In that sense, they are not, in the modern use of the term, liberal at all. They are conservative in that sense for they retain the old paths of liberty and piety.
2 Corinthians 3:17
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Worship is a narrow door to a wide open space. Learning about the Lord opens up the possibilities. Every decision cuts you off from something. That is what the word "decide" means. But choosing God cuts you off from sin, while choosing sin cuts you off from God and the never-ending pleasures sitting at His right hand.
John 10:9
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
Outside of Christ, there is no freedom, but with Him is deliverance and pasture to play in.
"The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild." — G.K. Chesterton
Good things are free to go wild provided they are protected and overseen by Christ.
“I wouldn’t have felt very safe with Bacchus and all his wild girls if we’d met them without Aslan.” — C.S. Lewis, Prince Caspian
Freedom is fun and forever in the backyard of our Father, but it is fleeting and finite when falling from great heights. You are free to fall, but only for so long; but you are free to play in the path of God as long as you live, which in His house is forever.
Galatians 5:1
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Do not submit to slavery. Worship of the one, true God is the highest form of education. That said, those who should know better don't always do what they know to be better.
Don't be that guy.
Stand fast.
Stay free.
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