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You have more problem with the law than I do. I didn't say anything about what we owe God as being a debt to earn salvation. That is purely your presumption working overtime. We owe God everything, not out of debt, but out of gratitude for our lives being saved from destruction.If we owe God anything, than that gift is not free and a debt, which is why you peruse after the law, because the law is all about you doing the work and paying the price.
Romans 12:1 ¶ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
As for obedience. If you fellas don't believe we are to obey God every time, in everything, regardless of the reason or motive for His asking, then you do not know your God. He is not your Lord.
1John 2:3 ¶ And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.