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The fulfilment of God's commands demands effort and striving on the part of the believer. Observance of the divine prohibitions means the restriction of his own freedom of action. This is obvious; all forms of ethics set limits to one's freedom of action and every religion has done this. Absolute freedom of action, the unlimited exercise of one's own will, as is demanded by some today, does not lead to man's liberation but to chaos. Unrestricted freedom in which the autonomous person does not observe any limits other than those which he sets himself-- and these are not binding in the end-- must "lead to sedition, whose flames none can quench... That which beseemeth man is submission unto such restraints as will protect him from his own ignorance, and guard him against the harm of the mischief-maker. Liberty causeth man to overstep the bounds of propriety, and to infringe on the dignity of his station." (Gl).
(35:2)
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