Originally Posted by abaya

Yeah, and to some extent I agree with you (only because I am now a secularist and no longer live according to Christian doctrine).

But an evangelical would *most likely* (still waiting for confirmation here) see God's laws as being far different than the laws of the world. "Render what is Caesar's unto Caesar and what is God's unto God," etc. There is no one to "clamp down" on people who "sin" in a spiritual sense, at least not if that person is born again, accepted Christ, and all that jazz. Hell is no longer relevant if one has been forgiven.

So then it's entirely up to that person whether or not he or she *wants* to obey... and that makes moral behavior a matter of will/desire to obey and make God happy, not fear of pissing him off. Hence the New Testament.