Last time I checked, Sozo believed that Christians still do things like commit adultery, so he and I are not describing the same sinless perfection. Okay?
You claim that God does not forgive us until we repent, yet you claim you still sin but don't have to ask God for forgiveness. You are using your one supposed act of repentance as a license to sin. That is loopy, Knight.
You say you wish you could stop sinning, but you can't, so you assume everyone is like you, unable to stop sinning. Ever heard of David or Job? David never sinned after the matter with Uriah...
1 Kings 15:5 Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
You can't be like David? Why?
Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.
You can't be like Job? Why?
Do you think it is against God's will that you stop sinning? Obviously it isn't. Then why, if you "wish" you could stop sinning, are your prayers being unanswered?
1 John 5:14 And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
15 And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him.
Do you believe that? If so, then why can't you stop sinning?
That certainly would be easier than you trying to restore me in a spirit of meekness. :chuckle: