(January 27, 2016 at 3:00 pm)Drich Wrote: actually no. I do not seek to contrive a morality from the bible. I simply look at and accept the sin and evil in my life and have sought and receive atonement for those sins. Which affords me the freedom to live apart from the law God uses to identify sin.
My behavior then becomes my direct offering of Love to God. I try and live what others may identify as a 'moral' life not because it is right, and I receive anything for it. I do so simply because it is the closest thing I can do to emulate the righteousness God has identified in the bible, as an expression of my faith and love towards him. "Right or wrong" be damned.
That is the difference between living a morality based life and living an atonement based life. If one understands atonement, then he knows their is no right we can do that can off set the wrong. So life ceases about trying to be right/moral, and becomes about seeking God.
This 'atonement based' lifestyle of yours is just another variant of pop morality. It isn't different in any way. You live according to what you consider the virtuous thing to do, which is cleave to God. That's just another arbitrary set of morals.