A Guest
Thank you for your long answer explaining how you are not a slave in the way that most people portray slaves, but a friend of Christ.
Perhaps you overestimate your status as a slave? At the same time you overestimate how much choice you have now that you are a slave of Christ.
‘Who among you would say to your slave who has just come in from ploughing or tending sheep in the field, “Come here at once and take your place at the table”? Would you not rather say to him, “Prepare supper for me, put on your apron and serve me while I eat and drink; later you may eat and drink”? Do you thank the slave for doing what was commanded? So you also, when you have done all that you were ordered to do, say, “We are worthless slaves; we have done only what we ought to have done!” Luke 17:7-10
To be a friend of Christ you would have to share equal rights. All the while he is your Lord and Master and holds power over you, you remain a slave in every sense of the word.
You have escaped enslavement to sin only to become enslaved to Christ. The penalty for changing your mind is to become an enemy of Christ and suffer the penalty.
Fortunately all these enslavements exist only in your mind. True freedom can only be enjoyed by free men and women. Those who have seen through religious slavery and started to enjoy their birthright of being born free of sin and free of religion.
Trevor