God's Many Splendored Image Analysis

In the first chapter of God’s Many-Splendored Image, the theme of freedom is obvious because that is the title of the chapter. Being free implies that we are like God, and God does not have a limitation of freedom, so we don’t either. On the same note, mental/spiritual freedom turns out to be more valuable than the physical that most adore. Human freedom does allow us to choose, due to the fact that we are divine beings made in God’s image, and that we can determine the mental happenings in a hard situation. Harrison starts out by conversing about how people wondered how much freedom they really had. All of these questions that were asked back then are still asked today. An example relevant in the United States is that we have freedom, but as the laws become stricter, how much of our own freedom can we really control, what is the best way to use it? At this point, the first chapter brings up the point that there are different types of freedom: mental and physical. In the example of the slave owner and the slave, here is how they compare. The owner is physically free, but is mentally caught up with thoughts of perversion that consume, and reflect on his actions. As for the salve, he is physically chained to do work for his master, but since he has freedom of his mind, he does work out of love. In a sense, [his] inner freedom [was] the freedom …show more content…
This is so, because we are made in God’s image, and so we have received part of his divinity. In the beginning, God created humans. First off, the fact that we have free will is blatantly obvious in the beginning when Adam and Eve committed the first sin by eating the forbidden fruit. If God were determining their fate, he would have not let them eat the fruit, let alone put that choice in the garden to begin with. The bottom line is that God is only pure, and since we are sinners, it is obvious that we have choice in our