What is the True Nature of Freedom? | Bishop Robert Barron 

But it seems to go to pot when we take God out of the equation.

It is only left to decide what that "bigger than you" thing is going to be. What will be the source of peace and freedom that calls you to strive toward it?

​@@daddycool228Good bit of the Hegelian dialectic relies on having a point of reference...Aristotle's unmoved mover.

Yes, but it is difficult to be your best self without a religious context.

Absolutely. Thank you❤

That's a beautiful insight. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks in the name of Jezus Crist

Amen, God bless you brother 🙏

The rebellious teen, the 2 year old that shouts, "NO!" cannot grasp the tyranny of actually getting what it is their "self," demands it must have to be happy. The enemies of rationality and the Good shout, "THAT'S YOUR TRUTH!"

You’re right to dismiss religion. Buddhism is a false religion. When you hear the truth, you cannot deny it. John 14:6

My thoughts exactly.

Purporting presuming doing without been.

It's such an interesting concept, and the way he explained it, it make so much sense!

But then there comes a time to let go completely, and operate on pure instinct. This, I believe, is where the magic is created. Control is a double-edged sword.

@@TheDionysianFields agreed. But many new students come through the door (mistakenly) thinking 'doing ANYTHING is SOMETHING'...and of course, it isn't, not realising that endless practise and repetition is key. Like the Hip Hop dance pioneer, Buddha Stretch says "Freestyle isn't to be OF style...there must be a foundation of some sort"...especially if you want to offer something of meaning and substance. The "Four Stages of Learning" concept is a good way to understand it.

@@ancientfuture9690 Practice and fundamentals are indeed essential. I'm a writer, and without strong grammar, I'd have nothing.

​@@TheDionysianFields what you are descriding is called "Being in the Zone." Where what you have been practicing becomes so second nature that you no longer need any concious thought going into it. Things just happen. Even things that you haven't ever even thought of. That's the magic.

Freedom without responsability is tirany, responsability without freedom is slavery.

@@luisantos1996 I can see how responsibility without freedom is slavery, but don't see how freedom without responsibility is tyranny. It seems more like pure anarchy which many see as pure freedom.

We wholeheartedly agree

@@DocAkins Cuz once you dont respect others people freedoms is like treating your rights as privilieges, people start developing dictatorship tendencies.When i say responsability i mean also discipline.

@@luisantos1996 So true, discipline is very important. Freedom itself is birthed through discipline, all artists (across all the arts) know this. Years of focus, practice, hard choices and never giving up eventually result in the joy of flow, achievement of vision and the connection to something far greater than themselves.

Thank you! We deeply appreciate your encouragement

as St Paul says 'the law is for the lawless'.

I agree that we ought to be respectful and peaceful, and I also agree that in the post-Christendom ruins we all inhabit, we're all kind of thinking or not thinking about the same things, but at least on a formal or grand narrative level, many who do think "professionally" about these things would say that the nominalism and voluntarism the bishop is speaking of are what eventually made the Protestant Reformation, and all of its downstream cultural effects, possible, if not inevitable.

If you think Catholicism is part of Christendom, then ypur clearly aren't Reformed. Look up what your creeds say about us Catholics. Also check out a do umwntary called Protestantism's Big Justification Lie for an irrefutable argument that demolishes Refromed soteriology.

Would like to have heard him actually say that the Ten Commandments point us to the way to live. All that fluff - does God sin! Our Creator, Almighty God has shown us what is right for man 1 Timothy 6:3-21.

@@carylbarnett7448 thats pretty much a given,

@@carylbarnett7448 The question wasn't 'Does God sin' (obviously it is clear from Scripture 'that there is no iniquity in Him' as it is written, and He is 'The rock, without any iniquity' as Moses said), but 'CAN God sin.' As in, does God determine not to sin or is it contrary to His nature? Is adultery wrong because God commands it, or does God forbid it because it is wrong? Barron would argue the latter. Remember that Barron was talking to a secular audience. St. Paul didn't just quote the Ten Commandments when he was on the Aeropagus (Read Acts ch 17 to see how St. Paul addressed the Greeks), or condemnations of idolatry from the Prophets, but rather, he quoted Greek poets and philosophers. Barron is taking the 'St Paul on the Aeropagus' approach. St. Paul whom you quoted didn't just shout out 1 Timothy 6. He used arguments from Greek philosophers. It's actually one of our key approaches as Catholics, that we use what the person already accepts to build up to Christianity. For example, when trying to demonstrate that Jesus is the Christ to a Jew it makes the most sense to look at the Old Testament, since he already accepts that as Divine Revelation. To use an analogy, God is the divine 'Sun' and those who 'dwell in the shadow of darkness' as the Gospel says, even they must have some of the rays of His light. For if God stopped actively willing and sustaining our existence every single moment, we would cease to exist (As it is written: " But if thou turnest away thy face, they shall be troubled: thou shalt take away their breath, and they shall fail, and shall return to their dust." .) St. Paul says that God's divine power can be seen clearly from the things that He has made, and therefore idolaters are without excuse; he also says that the gentiles who did not have the law had it written already on their hearts. Therefore there is a ray, however faint, of the divine truth, implanted in the hearts of all men, and left there by God to bring them to the fullness of Truth, that is, Jesus Christ, our Lord, the Way, the Truth and the Life. I would say that this is what Barron is trying to do, expressing things in a way they will understand and agree with to 'ease them' towards the Gospel, trying to dispose them to accept the grace of faith, which is the submission of intellect and will to divinely revealed truth; once we possess that virtue we can believe solely on the authority of God who reveals. Didn't God Himself act this way? He didn't just send His Son immediately after the Fall; rather He gave the Law and the Prophets as prefigurements and pedagogues teaching us about the Great High Priest who, in His days, pleased God, and was found Just. He sent St. John the Baptist to prepare His ways and make them straight to dispose the people to repentance.

Yes🐸

I like CS Lewis's opinion in the Abolition of Man, that the point of education is to teach him the right feelings for the right things.

Yep. Unlike a lot of Protestant churches, the Catholic Church doesn't look at the Creation Story as a scientific account and is instead open to evolution and it also teaches that those who didn't hear the gospel can be saved if they believe in God and try to live morally-sound lives unlike your average Protestant who thinks everyone who isn't Christian goes to Hell. Fun fact: The Apostle Paul read Greek philosophy and literature (gasp) since he quotes Epimenides (as well as the poet Aratus) in Acts 17.

Ask the good Bishop to Confirm you.

I’m sure to get some hate for this, but the Catholic (Universal) Church is the One True Church with lineage traceable back to Christ. All other flavors of Christianity have splintered, one might say protested, against The Church and decided to do their own thing. I’m no Theologian, and I’m not any sort of Apologist. Just a guy who got curious about it and that was my very clear conclusion after doing some research.

@@528Circle Facts. The Bible and Early Church writings support Catholicism over Protestantism and Eastern Orthodoxy.

@@528CircleI have come to the same conclusion. I don’t get how other people could question it.

yeah maybe? never forget that priests are freaks. they might be worth listening to but never forget that priests, all priests are freaks, doesn’t make them bad necessarily but they are all married to…

He quotes Dylan all the time. I never appreciated the lyrics of Dylan until now because I could never stand the sound of his singing 😅

I don’t! 😢

Amen!

WE DONT ASK FOR DEATH, GOODNESS ASKS FOR PEACE

May God bless and keep you.

I stand for PEACE.

whoa there, just because hamas is terrorists doesn't mean israel is all sunshine and roses. what ever you call them, the so-called "palestinians" really are having their homes squatted on and outright stolen, israel does as much shady stuff as the US does, and they do things like abortion. massive amounts of nuance is needed

@@NP-vk8de I meant it. Why do you consider it an overstatement?

He certainly needs prayers. Guilty of MT 5:23😢

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What does spiritual mean?

​@@JaaammmbbboooTo me, spiritual means a belief in a higher being, a creator which encompasses compassion and all that is good. The creator also has the awareness of evil and the strength to defeat it when called upon. Being spiritual to me means trying to follow the example of the nature of the higher being in my daily life and the way I interact with other people, nature and my environment and when I feel called upon I will use my strength to fight against evil and injustice.

Have you listened to bishop Barron’s talk on spirituality and religion?

The beauty of ARC as I see it currently is that it reminds of America 2.0 Though hard to remember, there was a time when everyone in America (or nearly everyone) believed in these basic principles and believed that America was the greatest, most free country that had done more to improve the human condition than any other civilization on the planet, ever. Sure we might disagree on tactics, or polices, or what have you, but at the end of the day we stood united under Old Glory. Now we have a massive swath of people who believe the exact opposite and they do not have any respect or love of our once great nation. ARC gives me hope that there are people all over the world who want to see us all prosper and hit the reset button on the utter insanity that is plaguing our planet today.