A conservative Soul-Mate body that fully complies with all that scripture teaches, modernised and minus controversial unbiblical baggage. Soul-mate.org avoids biblically controversial matters, advocating and returning to those ways practised by Jesus and the apostles. To build our house on the rock rather than sand.
In other words, soul-mate orthodoxy is a composite of winning aspects of Christendom (biblically building on the rock rather than the sand), while deemphasizing seriously unbiblical controversial baggage. It's aim is to achieve the fruit of God's Holy Spirit, leading to revival. Serious unbiblical controversy is counterproductive to that.
In the New Testament the moral law is explained as being the fruit of (biblically uncontroversial and) infinite God's Holy Spirit. God/Jesus is in the Old Testament concealed and in the New Testament revealed. So too God's codified moral law is part of what the NT explains is an ongoing HS relationship with God/Jesus, (as many as are led by God's HS are children of God), as an indwelling God leads us into all Truth/Wisdom&righteous standards of behaviour.
This topic is further detailed here :
Law And Jesus
Paul, in Galations, emphasizes faith; yet in 1Cor 7:19 he mentions keeping the commandments, which is subsumed by obedience to the faith (infinite/eternity biblically consistent. Again, obedience to the faith subsumes the moral law means, it's consistent with it, but both are increasingly progressively becoming second nature; through circumcision of our heart). Heb 8:10 "For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My laws in their mind and write them on their hearts,".
Like we don't run amok when driving on our roads, rather having traffic laws/disciplines to sustain harmonious standards of behaviour now and for all generations to come.
1 John 2:5 "But whoever keeps His word, truly the love () of God is perfected in him."
Life's biosphere/ecosphere depend on the infinite to maintain living Life-Sustaining-Systems.
Infinite God/Jesus chart the paths of life, to overcome large scale entropy.
The moral law(fruit, versus root of authentic faith) describes what the royal law means to love God and our neighbours. Every culture needs this "yoke is easy" standard of behaviour (also known as righteousness). It's not merely another religion but the only recipe for harmonious society, without large scale entropy, which eventually succumbs to varying levels of chaos and crime, like yet another fallen or "weakened" empire (due to empire building that ignores God/Jesus), since the finite isn't anchored in the biblically consistent infinite - authenticated by heptadic structure and repeatedly raising the dead on demand. (With everyone eventually doing whatever seems right in their own eyes, as mentioned in the Bible).
If revival does occur, and the promised outpouring of the Holy Spirit blesses that approach with the latter rain (with many "consistently" contributing to that outpouring) then that location may well become home.
Unfruitful movements haven't resulted in a latter rain revival, so we know there's work to do to be worthy of the promised latter rain.
In some ways, ideas rule (ie infinite Wisdom/Truth = "The Way/Truth/Life" & Prov 2:1-11, 31:26), and their proponents are only temporary contributors to that. Infinite God/Jesus, through the (biblically consistent, with Words having heptadic structure)Holy Spirit, chart a path of life through humanly/finitely intractable possibilities.
More on this topic --
God's Wisdom & Truth Rather Than Man's (20 minutes Charles Stanley)
If somehow this movement rings true, in it's entirety, to sponsors, then funding will enable quick development and hiring staff. To be worthy of God's blessing, we strive for thoroughly biblical practices or way of life. Disobedience of different degrees has limited the Holy Spirit in our nations, so that authentic revival seems impossible, until things are sorted out in a thorough manner. While we dismiss that reality check, other belief systems are prevailing, in multicultural societies.
As an engineer, i cherry pick the best of Christian teaching, thought to optimize fruitfulness through orthodoxy, and deemphasize highly controversial aspects that aren't essential to the Christian way of life.
That's not necessarily saying deemphasized topics don't have a suggested contribution, but to build on the rock rather than on the sand of disputed or controversial scholarship.
If we aspire to lead internationally in our scientific society we are required to emulate the rigor of modern cultures, not dealing in half truths, however unintentional. Sloppy scholarship is a recipe for crisis of confidence and counterfeit pet theories, not untypical of what cause youth to abandon church once they go to university.
To dot our i's and cross t's requires dissecting the whole counsel on the topic, not just parts, and writing a webpage treatise or ebook about it. I'm also interested in gaining further insight by considering the chronological order in which the NT books were written, to learn when Paul, James, and other books made summary statement/s on the topic --
https://biblestudytools.com /resources/guide to bible study/order-books-new-testament.html .
(More on this topic -
LawAndJesus.html
LawAndGrace.html).
Discussion documents are alright, no one has all the insights, but where there's rigor available, discussion ought to address it's pros and cons in a well reasoned thorough and logical -key issues- manner, and ebook, that reduces susceptibility to half truths, in the international community. Such an effort can require input from special interest folks or forums, to manage unknowns and the work.
If we want to find treasure buried in a field, if we want to find the words of life we need to begin practicing the works of life -- defined by and along with Christian faith in Jesus; expounded on at soul-mate.org
wikipedia.org/wiki/God Defend New Zealand
God of Nations at thy feet, In the bonds of love we meet, hear our voices we entreat, God defend our free land.
Touring New Zealand
The Seal Of God Text eBook , PDF eBook
Designs in Nature : "Would you say that these millions of exquisite designs, far exceeding in beauty and workmanship anything produced by man, are the result of mere chance ?"
It needs to be mentioned that with so much emphasis on biblical theology or theory that we can overlook God's mercy. I don't adjudicate on issues that may or not fall into this category but prayerfully defer to God & Jesus.
The Great Gospel Deception by D. Servant
Apparently God requiring humanity to work for a living, while seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and "all these things will be added unto you"/us, is resolved with some type of asceticism / austerity DS describes. He later explains it, Jesus concluded: "So therefore, no one of you can be My disciple who does not give up all his own possessions" Luke 14:33 . "In order to be Jesus' disciple, we must relinquish ownership of all our possessions to His control. We become stewards of what is now His, and our material wealth will be used for His purposes. Otherwise we are not His disciples." Kindle Loc 1163. This is a transformed view of how we conduct our affairs in light of Jesus' teaching. Again, we become faithful stewards, holding those things lightly until God requires them of us, and not indulging in the practice of self serving purchases that don't predominantly build God's influence.
To improve on the somewhat adhoc nature of stewardship we might adopt the neo-Levite modus operandi for property ownership, primarily using church Trust/s to manage lease housing, and expensive items of property, for those fulfilling the great commission -- similar to real estate companies that manage rental properties, purchased as a rent/lease to own -- but eventually owned by the Trust/s. With 3D printed housing it's no longer prohibitive to build new houses at a budget price -
https://youtu.be/wCzS2FZoB-1
https://www.iconbuild.com