Medicine Woman said:
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M*W: "Submitting to" and "being a slave of" are two entirely different perspectives. "Submitting to" my Creator fulfills the purpose of my existence, so how can you "assume" that I do not love my creator nor that I'm not doing what my Creator asks or expects of me? This is your narrow minded hyprocrisy talking again.
I don't see how submitting to and being a slave of are different "perspectives". I believe I showed this verse to okinrus, but I will show it to you to see what you think of it (albeit I expect your bias towards anything by Paul will undoubtedly influence your judgement):
17But thank God, though you were once slaves of sin, you have become obedient with all your heart to the standard of teaching in which you were instructed and to which you were committed.
18And having been set free from sin, you have become the servants of righteousness (of conformity to the divine will in thought, purpose, and action).
19I am speaking in familiar human terms because of your natural limitations. For as you yielded your bodily members [and [3] faculties] as servants to impurity and ever increasing lawlessness, so now yield your bodily members [and [4] faculties] once for all as servants to righteousness (right being and doing) [which leads] to sanctification.
20For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
21But then what benefit (return) did you get from the things of which you are now ashamed? [None] for the end of those things is death.
22But now since you have been set free from sin and
have become the slaves of God, you have your present reward in holiness and its end is eternal life.
Well at least we have a discussion going..