Sure, Self and Self Alone is exactly the same as giving up your Self and following Christ.
I have His Truth and thank God I found it after decades trapped in one of the tens of thousands of failed Protestant attempts to substitute following Eve for following Christ.
Keep on that liberty, the same liberty that has adopted nearly everything it preached against only thirty years ago and will soon be rationalizing away sodomy as being no different than stealing a pack of gum. Turn the music up and cruise on down that broad highway to your own destruction.
When you are imprisoned by carnal reasoning and groupthink, you cannot see the Spiritual Truth of what freedom in Christ means. It has nothing to do with any denomination, religion, or anything you imagine.