To make the way smoother for the unlearned -- for only them do I serve -- I shall set down the following two propositions concerning the freedom and the bondage of the spirit:
A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none.
A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject to all.
Martin Luther, 1520, The Freedom of a Christian (Three Treatises, Fortress Press, 1970, p. 277)
Is this correct? What does it mean? How do the two statements fit together?
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We are only free if we are free from selfcenteredness.
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I agree and that is the only freedom really worth having.
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