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Guy who studies Christian Ethics here. Actually, many Christians adhere to a kind of religious ethics where they have to act morally because God commands it.
Sure, it's not the popular view. Neither is it the exclusive motivation for Christians to act morally. But to say that's not why any Christian believes they are supposed to be moral is just patently false.
See "divine command theory." Popular proponents include John Hare and, my own professor, Robert Merrihew Adams.
Actually, I too grew up in the Bible belt as a Baptist! I now don't belong to any domination, but I just consider myself a "mere Christian." As for how I came to this interpretation of this particular passage, I was very much influenced by Robert Adams' book "Finite and Infinite Goods", much of which is on Divine Command Theory. But even more influential in my life is how I have come to read the Bible differently, and from what I have learned, more correctly. My major influences on how to read the Bible include George MacDonald, C.S. Lewis, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Richard Swinburne, and N.T. Wright (among others). The common view of all these men is that often the Bible is not meant to be read literally because that is not what God is trying to communicate to us via those words.