Okay - that all sounds well and good, and in the spirit of Romans 14, each should do in accordance with their conscience.
That is what I am and have been saying. Do according to the conscious which has the Law written upon it by the Lord Himself.
That said, you are preaching a mixture.
God's Law has always been: to love. The Spirit convicts us to do God's spoken Will through Love. Love fulfills that Law which God has expressed concerning what He deems good. There is but one Law and that is God's Law. Of Old, man tried to walk pleasingly before God through deeds of his flesh and quite assuredly failed miserably. God said that it was not working out, so He sent His Son with a new Law to follow and a new method to follow what God has spoken of His Will. That Law which came with Christ also tells us that the essence of what God spoke is to still be fulfilled.
So, if we do not love, have we not offended? If we do not love, have we not done evil? Yes, if we do not love, have we not done harm? Then certainly, the Law which was brought to us through Christ teaches us to be in compliance to God's will, just as He did. Jesus did not come to destroy the Law, but to satisfy (fulfill) it so that we could die to the Law and marry Him as the One who leads to God.
Even we Christians cannot live lasciviously and if we do, does not the Spirit convict us of sin which is in need of forgiveness? If not by the Law, then by what does He convict us? By Love? Even love will say that we have offended God, that we have caused harm to another. And is this not what we call our conscious? So then, the Law upon our conscious is even in agreement to God's spoken will.
You dip back into the Grave for a little Law here and there and don't rely wholly on resting in Christ and His Gospel of Grace, just to make sure you're pleasing to God, because you don't fully trust that what Christ did was enough.
So you say.
Do not offend is not 'God's Law' in the New Covenant.
Never said it was, JGIG. Please let us continue as we were and not any of this assumption. I have, on numerous occasions, said that Love is. Does love offend? Does love do harm? Does love hate? I have said that Love THEN fulfills God's will which is: do no sin, no evil, do love.
We are responsible for two things, and one is the Fruit of the other:
Believe on the One God has sent and love one another (Jn. 6:28-29, 1 Jn. 3:23-24).
Are we not responsible to walk pleasingly before God? Do we not do that through love? If we are not responsible to walking pleasingly before God then we have been liberated to live as we desire and we know that is not true. Yes, we are to believe in the One He sent and to love God and others, But, a faith without love is meaningless with Jesus. Love for God will cause one to please and not grieve Him as a rebellious son.
Going back to anything Old Covenant is not required, nor is it still God's way of communicating His will to us. That's like going to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil (being under the Law) instead of going to the Tree of Life (being led by the Spirit).
-JGIG
What is God's will? Is it outdated? Are we not told to walk according to the Spirit and if not, He convicts us? Does not the Lord chastise us when we misbehave? Does that not imply that His eternal will still does not approve of those things which goes against what He has spoken?
Love is the new method which He has given us to fulfill His will. What will? Has He not told us what is good in His sight? How then, do I please my Lord as my Lord has?
This I leave you all with:
Eph 5:2 And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour. 3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; 4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. 5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. 6 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. 7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them. 8 For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light: 9 (For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth; )
Eph 5:10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord.