Christian morals

Christian morals are really Christ Himself being lived out by the believer.

Originally posted by @sonship
What evidence do you offer that you would recognize Christ in someone living if you encountered Him ?

For someone staking his destiny on Christ not living, what evidence do you offer that you would welcome Him if He did live in someone/s ?

Originally posted by @sonship
Christian morals are really Christ Himself being lived out by the believer.

Originally posted by @fmf
Your two 'counter questions' are dodges. They do not answer my question which is about a specific claim you have made on this thread. Here it is again: What evidence are you offering that "Christ lives" in you?

Originally posted by @sonship
[b] Your two 'counter questions' are dodges.
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How many dodges have you participated in then?
None?

They do not answer my question
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Maybe you're asking the wrong questions.

Try one that sums up all your questions.
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I cut to the chase here.
Evidence is not persuasion.[/b]

Originally posted by @fmf
What evidence are you offering that "Christ lives" in you?

Let another praise you and not your own mouth

Originally posted by @sonship
No man can say Jesus is Lord except in the Holy Spirit.

I, jack Wilmore confess before FMF, and God, and Jesus Christ, and all the world that Jesus Christ is Lord, my Lord.

According to God's word, no one can say [b]"Jesus is Lord" except in the Holy Spirit.

Aside from this I follow the exhortation of Proverbs.

Let another praise you and not your own mouth

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The Law of Moses surely was a moral code.
It was also a kind of photograph of what God is like.

Just like a photograph may represent a person but it is not that person. It may indicate what that person looks like.

The moral code of the law of Moses is not really what the believers in Jesus Christ live by directly. They live by the Spirit of Christ who is making His home in their hearts.

This living by Christ is also called living by the grace of Christ.
It is in contrast living by a moral code, even the best one written.

Paul even goes as far to say that we Christians are not under the law but under grace. Grace is so fine. Grace gets finer and finer. It penetrates down into the innermost motives.

It governs how a man in Christ reacts. It governs his reactions spontaneously. It is learned. And this learning to live by the Grace of Christ is a life long matter.

Now, here is where Paul the pioneer into the Christian life says that the believers are under grace rather than under the law.

Romans 6:14

"For sin will not lord it over you, for you are not under the law but under grace."

"But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law."

This passage from Matthew definitely reminds many of what Paul wrote - that the believer is not under the law but under grace.

"Come to Me all who toil and are burdened and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." (Matt. 11:28-30)