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Originally Posted by Trapped
John 14:15 - “If you love me, keep my commands.
John 15:10 - If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.
Christian living is in no way NOT not an outward standard of right and wrong. All I see is a young big-headed kid (Nee, not you, StG) wanting to create a moving line of right and wrong, and wrapping it up in spiritual sounding language to justify himself.
"Christians are different because we do not live by an outward standard or law"? No, Christians are different because they have been shown the mercy of God and granted the free gift of eternal life. We still live by all the outward standards and laws non-Christians do.
If the point that Nee is making is that without having the life of Christ inside of us, the Christian life is impossible, he sure missed an incredibly easy way of saying that!
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Christian living is the outward manifestation. Christian life is Christ and Him in us. The new covenant is all about the life of Christ in us and being lived through us.
Some read everything of Nee with suspecting eyes it seems . . . and perhaps he could have said it more simply. Do you have any issue with the 1st sentence in that quote?