Not that I bothered to read past the first line
Of course not, which is why you lack understanding.
your obviously ( and typically) unresponsive answer.
I think you just prefer not to know. But I'll try to explain anyway. Now, If you had read my post #503 in the context of the conversation that was taking place, then then you'd see that I was explaining the role of freedom within Christian thought, and that my last post to you continued in that same vein
I'll give an overview here. Man has a purpose. He's on a journey which he's been placed on by God. And the goal is to
find God-to come to acknowledge His existence and understand man's need for Him-and without whom man is sort of floundering here in this existence, free, but lost. But man
prefers to go it alone, so to speak, and that's ok, to a point, until he reaches the maturity and level of experience to realize that something's missing, that he was made for more than this world, with all of its beauty and wonder and also mess and harshness. But he'll come to know for himself that a world free even from God is no life worth living for long-it would probably get quite boring here, meaningless, after a lifetime or two at most, for one thing. And that's if your fortunate enough to have a relatively calm and peaceful life.
Now, it takes courage and the wherewithal to go against the herd mentality to go on this quest for God. But if one understands that love, and all that it implies: mercy, forgiveness, acceptance, truth, tolerance, patience, peace, justice, etc, is the most beneficial thing one can possess and express in a world that so often devalues and lacks it in favor of selfish gain, then they'll be reassured to learn that love is not just a concept, a nice ideal based on opinion but that its the most powerful and important virtue in existence, and that it is, as I may've mentioned before here, real and
foundational to this very universe. It's worth living and dying for-it gives worth and meaning and purpose to all things as its been said. If we don't align ourselves with it, then the natural outcome is that we end up existing without it, with all
that implies: cold, selfish pride, bickering, conflict, bitterness, jealousies, impatience, anger, rejection, impulsiveness, injustice, etc.