Living in alignment is obedience. God through the new and Old Testament is portrayed as Lord/King. He’s the only just and truly loving king, the only one worth fully obeying.

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You are repeating rhetoric from the church, not practical virtues. All those amount to is “stop listening to your conscience and do what you are told by your ruler.” That, imo, is not at all how to live in alignment with God. It certainly wasn’t the example that Jesus provided.

That’s a false dichotomy. Obeying God is in alignment with conscience. I didn’t learn that from a church. Like I said, Jesus said that people who want to follow him would call him Lord. Do you obey a lord? Where are you getting your assertion that God doesn’t require obedience? He’s all knowing and all-loving so I’m not sure where you’re getting the idea that obeying him is a scary concept.

This probably stems from you and I having a very different idea of what God is, and also what the church is. And unfortunately going into hours-long threads regarding what I think about that isn't on my to do list today. So maybe at some point in the future. 🫡