S1E7 "This Is Your Boss"

     I once attempted to inform a little girl that she was a slave. She emphatically told me that indeed she was not! In her mind, the word "slave" conjured an image of days past - of bondage, inequality, the loss of individuality and humanity! What kind of Sunday School teacher was I to insinuate something so horrible!? However, I was not referencing an antebellum form of mastery! I was referring to a bondage that is irrelevant of nationality, age, well-being, affluence, place or time. This bondage is to sin.

"Is a slave a slave...?"

     The Editor in the episode "The Long Game" raises the hypothetical question, "is a slave a slave if he doesn't know he's enslaved?" The Doctor unblinkingly replies with, "Yes!" Well then, reader, allow me to inform you that you are a slave! Whether you know it or not. That little girl was wrong. She was (is) a slave! We are born under the bondage of sin. And just like all of those people at Station 5, this horrible thing "is your boss, this has always been your boss - since the day you were born." Romans 6 puts it this way: "you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin which leads to death or of obedience [to God] which leads to righteousness." 

"This has always been your boss!"

     So we have two choices: slaves to sin - which we are born to - or slaves to God. One way leads to death the other to life abundant and life eternal! It's an obvious choice! Than why have so many chosen death? "There is a way that seem right...but its end is the way of death."Proverbs 16:25  For the same reason that Cathica believed that Floor 500's walls were made of gold and that a promotion was a good thing - ignorance. The Doctor hit it square on the nose when he said that a whole generation of "the human race had been bred that didn't bother to ask questions" - "the right kind of questions!" The Editor called humanity cattle; the Bible calls us sheep. Both are stupid and easily led astray!  Hosea says "my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge [of God]." I could say the same thing!

     Is it time you started asking the right kind of questions? To whom (or what) are you bound? What is your end?  What is Truth? Where is Life? (I'll give you a clue - the Bible has all the answers!) This generation has more information -total- at their literal fingertips than has previously existed for the last 5,000 years! Yet the ignorance persists! Break free!
"Everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin, ...If the Son sets you free than you are free indeed!" John 8:34