No. I don’t look at the Gospel as a set of rules. I was raised that way but found what I was taught to be false and nothing more than rank legalism. I doubt that you know anything of what I believe because you have very obviously reached very wrong conclusions giving the appearance of making assumptions concerning what I believe.
It’s interesting that you won’t give share personal experience concerning what you have been taught and learned inside you apart from scripture. As strongly as you pronounce the non orthodox views that you hold one would think that you would think you’d be anxious to lend credibility to your views by doing so.
Sorry for any false assumptions. I wouldn't phrase the question as "apart" from scripture. What I would say is that scripture,and not only that contained in the Christian bible, has enabled me to see in such a way that I wouldn't look to scripture for all my answers as I once did. If we are truly right now "Seated in heavenly places in Christ",as the scriptures tell us,then why look for answers in what Christ told a follower 2000 years ago as the final authority?
If you also thoughtfully consider how much of our interpretation of foundational scripture is skewed by culture,and always has been with the English Catholic being among the first, it becomes evident that scripture has always been manipulated. Possibly that's why God has a better way. The whole purpose of Jesus was so you can be ONE with God. That's what Jesus preached and if you preach that today you get the same legalistic reaction about "What scriptures do you obey and which ones do you break?" It doesn't matter at all because in HIM,I have obeyed them all. In me I broke them all. It doesn't matter though if I am trusting in HIM rather than in me. If I am always looking for things to do better or constantly guilty for not being good enough,I am still looking at me and will never be full and fulfilled until I stop that and start just looking at perfection,and I mean me as perfect,cause you can't separate us,one from the other.
