NOTES for Luk 12:6-7
The Savior's words that on the heads of His disciples and followers "every hair is counted" can raise a number of questions. There are two main ones. The first is connected with the freedom of choice that, it would seem, a Christian cannot have in that case, and the second with the reality of Christian life in the fallen world: can one think that there are no accidents in their life? At first glance the answer to the second question is obvious: Christians live in this world just like all other people; they are not spared either natural or social catastrophes. But is this the kind of Christianity Jesus is talking about?
Christianity was conceived as life in the Kingdom, and the Church as a community of people living in the Kingdom while at the same time remaining in this world. Not, of course, so that this world would penetrate the Church and the Kingdom, but so that the Kingdom would enter the world. And for this, the life of each individual Christian and of the whole Church must be determined by the laws of the Kingdom, if not completely, which is impossible before the full transfiguration of the world and the human being, then predominantly. Then every hair on the Christian's head will be counted, according to the laws of the Kingdom.
But according to the law of this world, such a thing is impossible in principle. The laws here are different; they are purely or predominantly natural, even when the matter concerns a human being. Nature knows neither the individual person nor his value. It is based on the laws of large numbers. For the functioning of natural systems, only the preservation of the species matters, not the individual creature. And not all species exist forever; most appear and disappear.
So as long as a person remains within the framework of natural laws, he remains in the world of accidents, where anything at all can happen to anyone, no matter how kind, just, or even believing he may be. Indeed, faith, at least in the biblical sense, is not a system of views and convictions, but trust in God, the choice a person makes in favor of God.
It is the only one possible for a person, because in nature there is only accident, determined by the law of large numbers, and determinism, determined by causality. There is no freedom in nature, and a person can only choose whether to remain in a world where he will never be free and where anything at all can happen to him, or to entrust himself to Christ and leave the world, becoming an inhabitant of the Kingdom where the person is truly free and where he matters so much that God has counted all the hairs on his head.
At the same time, no one takes freedom away from a person in the Kingdom. But here his freedom becomes meaningful, and his choice receives meaning, unlike in the natural world, where choice has no meaning because it always turns out to be a choice among many accidents, none of which frees the person from the determinism that defines the very existence of nature. This is the main choice of the person: acceptance of the freedom given by God in the Kingdom or refusal of it in this world. There is no third option.