How is Christianity freedom?

Intuïtively religion is not associated with freedom. It rather connotates with suppression; it suppresses our desires and often comes with a range of laws instead. Lust? Temperance. Drunk? Sobriety. Party? Worship. And so on. There is no freedom if we follow the path of religion.

However, lust and temperance are not opposites, but different results.

Behind every suppression is a desire. Lust (as a desire) is the result of the full relief (as a choice of will) of our sexual instincts (as driver). Our will has extremes. The results, lust or temperance, are merely the result of the opposites of our will.

Now a new question emerges, which brings new light on the dilemmas: what is wisdom? How to guide our will.. ..with regard to our sexual instincts? ..with regard to our religious instincts? ..with regard to our moral instincts? And so on.

Once we realize that every instinct hides a question for wisdom, we cannot hide behind our initial preferences as a guide. We might, but our choice will then merely be driven by our upbringing and culture, raising the question: is it wise to guide our instincts based on upbringing and culture?

Once we realize this vacuum of options, our instinct of wisdom seems our only way out. But wisdom itself must be guided. What is its source?

At this point inevitably the concept of truth enters the stage. We cannot separate wisdom from truth. With wisdom starts our search for truth. Since our vacuum of options is real, the truth shall set us free. Free from the options, real in it’s guidance. In wisdom.

This is how Christianity, as answer to our instincts, can and will set us free. It will offer freedom, because it offers wisdom and truth. If not, Christianity will not be our freedom, but a burden, a ‘stumblingstone and rock of offence’.