Well God is no present in the minds of all as far as I understand it. People need discerning tools to live better. It helps us discern good actions from bad actions. Not everything is covered in the bible as to what we should or should not do.
by being discerning, by analyzing both the scripture and what we're presented with in our lives, we can see what's right and what's not.
however if we're always looking back to a user's-guide or rulebook to decide what is good or not, then we don't really *know* righteousness. we're just following instructions, and what we 'know' is "how to follow instructions"
if our hearts are righteous, and a righteous spirit lives in us, then we don't need a law to tell us 'this and this are wrong' -- we'll know because we'll recognize good and recognize evil in whatever form they take.
we can learn that by constant practice, like, learning a sport or any body of knowledge in schooling: when it's been internalized and we've apprehended it, we don't even consciously think about how to hit a baseball or or understand a language. we just do it; it's in us.
practice doesn't change our hearts tho, it only makes our body & brains used to certain actions and thoughts. for our hearts to become wise, to become righteous, to become loving, to become discerning -- they have to be changed by an outside force. we can train ourselves to overrule them, by looking at laws and practicing them, but we don't change their nature, not by ourselves. if we're only a religion of works and obedience to guidelines, then all we're doing is outwardly masking our natures, imposing behavioral and mental strictures on a heart that's not necessarily in line with any of them.
so God has to save us. God has to change our hearts. this isn't something possible for us to do -- but if He has, and He's given us a heart that desires what is right, then it's really not so difficult to discern what we should or should not do. we just have to practice reigning in the will of our bodies ((which includes our brains)) that is opposed to righteousness. for that we don't necessarily need a 'law' to look to, when we become mature, having control over ourselves. we just need love: as God defines love. and love is something that has to be given to us, from God, and received, to be given out again to God and to others
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