The Truth About Self-Ownership

Who owns your body? One of many questions I ask people in social experiments. Unfortunately, I usually receive the same response I get when trying to educate others about Natural Law; Open mouths and blinking eyes. I then ask them if you don't own your body, then who does? Some bible students will respond: God owns my body, referring to the scriptures that do say that God owns everything, the earth, the cattle, every soul, etc. Psalms. 24.1-2, Job 12.10, 1 Cor.4.7, 6.9 references.

What one might consider is that the bible also calls God's followers friends, no longer servants/slaves because this Divine Deity shares knowledge with his followers. John 15.15. Generally speaking, a slave does not know what his master is doing, nor is a slave allowed to ask questions, they follow orders. If we are slaves, why are WE allowed to ask questions? Ask and YOU shall receive, seek and YOU shall find, knock and the door will be open to YOU. Matt. 7.7. God is a re-warder of THOSE who DILEGENTLY seek him. Heb. 11.6

We are also called children, heirs and co-heirs with Christ. Rom.8.17. An heir receives an inheritance. Not something that's common in master/slave relationships. Being called a child by the creator denotes an intimate relationship. Any physical father and mother, although not the original creator did have a role in the birth of a child, but what parent would claim ownership of him or her?

A common thread throughout the Bible is that we are are also given choice, free will; the two trees, symbolic of two ways of life back in Genesis to the book of Revelation it is apparent, God gives us recommendations, choose life, Deut. 30.19 but the choice remains ours, but remember free will does not mean free from consequences. If one feels comfortable with God owning your body then that is one's choice, I think however that this whole idea of anyone owning us has a deeper meaning. Consider:

If there was no Bible, no Spiritual books at all, would we be able to claim self ownership? Unless one is physically/mentally impaired we can all move in any direction we want, think whatever we want, and basically do whatever we want without limitations, except those limitations imposed by Natural Law, practical restrictions within the natural order of things, every culture on earth has a version of the Golden Rule. It is NOT the creator who limits our freedom, it is disconnected man and his disconnected governments who seem obsessed with control. I can walk in freedom because I understand it's precepts/responsibilities. Psalms 119.45. Understanding that our freedom depends on freedom for everyone. Self-ownership requires self-government.

by Victor Johnson