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No, many Christians do what is pleasing to God by obeying his commandments. Has nothing to do with prayer, Bible study, etc. Just obeying his commandments. Which are really the same "laws" dictated by society. [/quote]

So, they are not the same. The bible says "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live". But we don't kill witches. 
Similarly:
Neither shall a garment mingled of linen and woolen come upon thee. - Leviticus 19:19
or:
When a woman has a discharge of blood, which is her regular discharge from her body, she shall be in her impurity for seven days, and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening

You see, there is some stuff from the bible we follow, and some we reject. Many of our laws have no basis in religion at all. [/quote]

FYI: Most Christians follow the New Testament. [b] Many things mandated in the Old Testament were done away with with Jesus' birth, death and resurrection. [/B] He made the "ultimate sacrifice" and, as such, we are no longer bound by OT laws. Jewish people, who don't believe in Jesus, follow the OT.[/quote]

And this is the part that is every bit as much human interpretation as an atheist consulting their own moral sense of right v wrong.[/quote]

Can you explain? I'm having trouble following. [/quote]

Sure!  You said you're not reliant on your own sense of morality. You just follow the Ten Commandments. Because that is God's Word. But it was pointed out to you that the OT has a long list of pre- and proscriptions. So why not follow them as we'll. to which you replied, essentially, because the Bible says we don't have to follow those anymore. But many others read the bible and come to a different interpretation. So you're no longer making a strict appeal to the word of god, but rather your interpretation of the word of god (or worse yet, a professional interpreter's translation of the word of god, that has been interpreted by some religious authority figure).

So your absolute morality is nothing more than a flawed human attempt at interpreting a holy document and deriving moral laws therefrom.[/quote]

I'm sorry, still not totally following, but I'll give it a shot:

I never said I'm not reliant on my own sense of morality. But, what I will say is that my morality is shaped by my (Christian) upbringing and I've found it to be a great foundation upon which to build and live my life.

Yes, I follow God's commandments. re: OT/NT...a lot of the distinctions have to do with sacrifices and, with Jesus's death, the need for sacrifices was no more. Whether folks choose to continue following them is their personal choice.

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And in that sense you're doing the same thing atheists do.  PP responded to this by saying there was no human interpretation going on; she just followed God's Word. My point was that "God's Word" is a human construct.  Whether it's which part of the Bible to adhere to, or which to ignore. There's tradition, there's authority figures, there's "revelation" which is essentially your internal moral compass. [/quote]

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