In contrast to secular, humanistic legal arguments that ultimately lead to a State-limited right of conscience, the Christian argument for religious freedom as a fundamental and "inalienable" human right recognizes, and indeed is premised upon, the relationship between God and man, and the Divine Creator's design that allows man's free will: Freedom of conscience necessarily exists as a prerequisite to our being able to accept, through our own free will, Christ's "invitation" to enter into a loving relationship with the Father.
As explained in the
First Things article,
In Defense of Relgious Freedom, A Statement by Evangelical and Catholics Together:
Human freedom, and especially religious freedom, reflects God’s design for creation and his pattern of redemption. Religious freedom is thus grounded in the character of God as revealed in the Bible and in the moral structure of the world that we can know through reason.
Read the article here.
