Our cultural view of freedom is generally the space to do whatever we feel like at any given time provided it does not interfere with your space to do the same.
What we generally want from a deity is for him/her/it to turn us loose to exercise that freedom. Perhaps even endorse our exercise of that type of freedom
And so it should cause us to pause and take stock when Paul describes God doing just that in the context of describing his anger being unleashed on humanity in Romans 1.
Three times in a short section of the letter, Paul describes God's anger towards humanity driving him to "give them over" to their own inclinations.
Human choice un-checked by God's good boundaries is hell.
This reminds me of something C.S. Lewis says somewhere. In the end, there will be two types of people. Those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says "THY will be done."
Might be time for us to re-think our idea of freedom.
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