Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 2.3 WE
Summary of text [comment] page 85
[We may freely choose one of two hearts.
Sin, law and death resides in one heart.]
Summary of text [comment] page 85
[We may freely choose one of two hearts.
Sin, law and death resides in one heart.]
[The mandala of responsibilities, thoughts, freedom and deeds exhibits Christian liberty.
Responsibilities and liberty nourishes the heart.]
[The mandala of words, thoughts, bondage, and deeds opens to sin and law
Sin resides in words.
Law entraps thought.
Words and bondage corrodes the heart.]
Summary of text [comment] page 85
[How does free choice describe the heart?
Is the answer obvious?
There are two mandalas of the heart.
Each person freely chooses one heart or the other.
Each person expresses one mandala or the other.]
Summary of text [comment] page 85
[The term “free choice” matches the single actuality that is the heart.
The term “Christian liberty” goes with responsibility and freedom in the mandala of the heart.]
[Christian liberty entails the capacity to create and maintain responsibilities, especially concerning Christ.
Christian liberty employs the co-opposition of responsibilities3(2 and freedom2(1).]
[The whole heart may also be described as words, thoughts, bondage, and deeds.]
Summary of text [comment] page 85
Schoonenberg pointed out that many doctrinal statements do not make a proper distinction between ‘free choice’ and ‘Christian liberty’.
[Free choice is a quality of the whole heart, which may be depicted by the mandala of responsibilities, thoughts, freedom, and deeds.]
Summary of text [comment] pages 84 and 85
[The slogans of the modest proposal might be:
Political promises make bondage.
Personal responsibility makes freedom.]
[The bill is coming due.
The value of a dollar is about to collapse.
The post-religious (enlightenment) Progressives have only one option:
Create a one party state before and during the financial collapse.
Force conversion on all citizens who cooperate.
Place the remainder in camps.]