32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” - Jesus. John 8: 23
What does Jesus mean when he says " Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free”? What is the truth? What is it to be free? I searched for the meaning of freedom and the result was the below; 1 1. The power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants. 2. 2. The state of not being imprisoned or enslaved. Liberation, release, delivery, non- confinement. To me, I don't think meaning 1 leads to meaning 2, and I don't believe Jesus was talking about the sort of freedom that meaning 1 describes. When I was 16 years old, I remember that I couldn't wait to be 18. 'Absolute freedom!" I told myself. The freedom to be who I wanted. No more taking orders from my parents, no more having to go to school and doing my homework every night. Eat what I want when I want and live where I wanted to. My...