Lesson 4 – Human Freedom

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2/25/2023	Hello TMIY men and other invitees! The post-TMIY group CONTINUES TO GROW! We had 10 men stay last week for Lesson 3 on God in Search of Man – including new attendees Les Schoepe, Joe Othon, Billy and Jason Johnson and the great Stan Hill! All told we have had 16 different men attend – and Todd so far wins the prize for perfect attendance! Thanks Todd! As for the upcoming Lesson 4 on Human Freedom: I am not overstating when I say this is one of the most important Sheen lessons of the 50 – you will learn about how atheism actually admits that God exists, the way that God looks at the world outside of time, the difference between the foreknowledge of God and the myth of predeterminism, the problem of evil explained, and how God chose to make a moral universe where the whole point of everything is man making a free choice for God. And all that in 25 minutes of audio! Here’s an excerpt to whet your appetite: God’s Influence How can God influence you? And still leave you free? Well, consider various kinds of influences. First, turn a key in the door, there is the impact of something material on something material, and the result is the opening of the door. That is one kind of influence. The influence of a material thing on another material thing. Now go a stage higher. Consider the case of a father talking to a son, trying to influence him, for example, to become a doctor. What actually influences the son is some invisible truth as well as the deep love of the father for the son, and of the son for the father. What love actually does is to bring out in the son, a free act. The son is not obliged to do exactly what his father wants, he is free to do the contrary, but truth and love have so moved him that he regards what he does as the very perfection of his personality. Later on he may say “I owe everything I have to that conversation I had with my father. I really began to discover my true self.” Now in some such mysterious way as this, God works upon your soul. He does not work like a key in a lock. He works less visibly than a father on a son but there are the same mysterious words. “I” and “You.” Because God is the very embodiment of love, His Love inspires you to be what you were meant to be. A free person in the highest sense of the word. The more you are led by God’s Love, the more you become yourself and it is all done without ever losing your freedom. Look forward to seeing you on Saturday! God love you!!!! Phil	Lesson 4 – Human Freedom rev 9-24-22 Lesson 4 – Human Freedom

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2/25/2023

Hello TMIY men and other invitees!

The post-TMIY group CONTINUES TO GROW! We had 10 men stay last week for Lesson 3 on God in Search of Man – including new attendees Les Schoepe, Joe Othon, Billy and Jason Johnson and the great Stan Hill! All told we have had 16 different men attend – and Todd so far wins the prize for perfect attendance! Thanks Todd!

As for the upcoming Lesson 4 on Human Freedom: I am not overstating when I say this is one of the most important Sheen lessons of the 50 – you will learn about how atheism actually admits that God exists, the way that God looks at the world outside of time, the difference between the foreknowledge of God and the myth of predeterminism, the problem of evil explained, and how God chose to make a moral universe where the whole point of everything is man making a free choice for God. And all that in 25 minutes of audio!

Here’s an excerpt to whet your appetite:

God’s Influence

How can God influence you? And still leave you free? Well, consider various kinds of influences. First, turn a key in the door, there is the impact of something material on something material, and the result is the opening of the door. That is one kind of influence. The influence of a material thing on another material thing.

Now go a stage higher. Consider the case of a father talking to a son, trying to influence him, for example, to become a doctor. What actually influences the son is some invisible truth as well as the deep love of the father for the son, and of the son for the father. What love actually does is to bring out in the son, a free act. The son is not obliged to do exactly what his father wants, he is free to do the contrary, but truth and love have so moved him that he regards what he does as the very perfection of his personality. Later on he may say “I owe everything I have to that conversation I had with my father. I really began to discover my true self.” Now in some such mysterious way as this, God works upon your soul. He does not work like a key in a lock. He works less visibly than a father on a son but there are the same mysterious words. “I” and “You.”

Because God is the very embodiment of love, His Love inspires you to be what you were meant to be. A free person in the highest sense of the word. The more you are led by God’s Love, the more you become yourself and it is all done without ever losing your freedom.

Look forward to seeing you on Saturday!

God love you!!!!

Phil

Lesson 4 – Human Freedom rev 9-24-22
Lesson 4 – Human Freedom