text: You wrote this, which sounds to me as though you understand the Bible to be in the first place a complete authoritative book of instructions on how human beings should live if they wish to please God: "We have the manual and all the help we need is available to us to follow Christ and His commands as He Himself Wills." And "to follow commands" is to submit to them and to obey them.
  
  If that's not what you mean, please forgive me for misunderstanding you.