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What is the difference between Agency, Freedom and Liberty? | Latter-day Conservative

Agency is the ability to choose an action, whereas Freedom is the capability to DO an action. What’s the difference?  Here’s an example.

You have the agency or ability to make the choice to go to New York, and can make that choice even if you don’t have a car or other form of transportation. You have made the choice, despite the absence of the ability to act on that choice. It is the access to transportation that will provide you with the Freedom, or capability, to actually go to New York.

Liberty is opposite of Captivity.  Liberty is often confused as having the same meaning as Freedom, yet there is a difference. Liberty comes from choosing and doing the right actions, those which are just before God. It’s really impossible to separate Liberty from Obedience to the Laws of God.

Real Liberty only comes from obeying a commandment or law to reach the destination you want. Bondage, or Captivity, is choosing a path and being bound to the outcome, whereas Liberty is choosing your destination or outcome and being bound to the path required to achieve such an outcome.

The Key to understanding and experiencing Liberty lies in choosing the outcome we want versus receiving the outcome our path dictates.

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Gospel of Jesus Christ = LIBERTY

 In companionship study this morning with Amber we studied Preach my Gospel on page 45 and 46 about the reformers.  Then we read from "Jesus The Christ" for a little more detail about the reformers.

I liked this quote from James E. Talmage in Jesus The Christ:

The gospel of Jesus Christ is the embodiment of liberty; it is the truth that shall make free every man and every nation who will accept and obey its precepts.

 

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