The sacred texts of the Abrahamic religions want people to live according to moral principles and suggest them some ethical instructions which are generally with promising reward or divine retribution. It is said to obtain rewards or escape punishment does not create a high level of motivation for living based on morality, and secondly, if a sovereign God to man commands him what to do, and what to leave, this is being incompatible with the freedom and «self-governing"" of man.
This article is to state that first goal of these religious texts is that man shall love God and obey him. The divine retribution or promising rewards is a subsidiary and indispensable issue, and secondly, this love must be based on knowing God. The man should love a God for whom one recognizes virtues and perfections.
So actually, this is the man who governs himself, and finds a perfect God with virtues, loves Him and submits his will to divine authority. Such ""God-governing"" is consistent with ""self-ruling"". However, unquestionable obedience of religious scholars or the acceptance of legal good and badness as Asharites have represented, or acceptance of fideism as Kierkegaard has mentioned in his works are incompatible with ""self-governing"".
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