Thread:Superdadsuper/@comment-14847494-20151204023742/@comment-5175866-20151215194305

Something I was going to say before SouthWriter replied: Heeha, while the idea of being able to have authority over your own life, is common and would be interesting, that is not how life works. No matter where you go you will have authority, whether that is in academics, in work, in a club, in an assocation and under your parents roof. Especially with living your parent (as you have told us) people often are looking for independence and self-governance. There is no where in the world where authority can be escaped. Society naturally organizes authority- with or without thought of God.

According to the Bible Christians know that every authority is in place because God has allowed it. Even further you say that if God were real, you would have to give up your freewill. Rather, there is no middle ground. You are either "enslaved" to sin, or to righteousness. The Bible refers to believers as "slaves" or "servants" to Jesus Christ many times. The word slave or servant in this case all come from the word that means "Bondservant". The Bible talks about servitude as a promising thing and that the burden is light. By choosing to serve God, by choosing to be a bondservant, you are not giving up your free will, rather you are choosing God's will over your own. No matter how much evidence I provide you, you will not be able to understand the reason for choosing servitude to God without accepting His salvation. You haven't provided any evidence that God is not real, you have only said what you do not like about God, or what you think God would do.

The Bible describes service to God, not as a burden or giving up will, but rather something that all Christians willingly and voluntarily do. It is much like one who helps out a local food drive, despite it being work-intensive they chose to do it freely.