Believe me when i tell you that quoting verses, to try to prove error, is something that you should avoid.
Of course. Why would I do otherwise?
You can't seem to understand that Paul was "made free from sin".... as He wrote that Verse.
Are we talking about 1 Timothy because I don't see where Paul says that he has been made free from sin in that passage? He says that he is the foremost sinner in that passage. The concept of being "freed from sin" is actually found in Romans 6, where Paul has employed the concept of slavery to ask "whom do you serve?" In that context, to be "freed from sin" represents a change of masters. One is either serving sin or serving righteousness. One is freed from master sin to serve master righteousness. But it is a mistake to misconstrue Paul's argument to suggest that we have victory over sin. As I pointed out earlier, victory over sin comes at the "change." 1 Corinthians 15:52 ". . . in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet; for the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable,
and we will be changed". At that moment, we have victory over death because we have victory over sin. Not until then.
Are we talking about Romans 7 yet? Why did you include Romans 7 in the title if you didn't want to talk about Romans 7.
You have misunderstood "..if you walk in the Light, in the Spirit, you will not commit (sin) works of the flesh".
Okay, let's look at Romans 8 where Paul talks about walking in the Spirit.
Romans 8:12-17
So then, brethren, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh— for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live. For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!” The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, heirs also, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him so that we may also be glorified with Him.
If one is not committing any deeds of the body, what does it mean to put to death those deeds? If sin is no longer present in me, do I still need the Spirit's help to eliminate the deeds of my body? If I have been liberated from sin, then I am also liberated from lust and temptation, which implies that there are no deeds of the body left to be eliminated. But Paul says that if I am walking according to the Spirit I am eliminating the deeds of the body, which logically follows from the fact that sin is still in me and I am still tempted by my lust.
Paul wrote the verse., and you have concluded that this means He is still sinning.
Of course, otherwise, Paul would have said, I WAS the foremost sinner but not anymore because by the blood of Christ, I have been freed from sin. But he never says that. He says I AM the foremost sinner. He didn't say, as you argue, that he committed the "chief" sin, i.e murder. No. Paul didn't say he is still sinning, he said that he is the foremost sinner. Do you understand the difference?
sinning = what I do
sinner = who I am.
Taken together Paul argues that he is no longer serving sin with his body, he is serving righteousness. BUT inwardly, he finds himself coveting all the time. Even those who have stopped sinning or sin very little, are still sinners inside. We are sinners by nature.
Paul's nature is "new Creation in Christ" " born again", = Its the "Divine Nature" as described by Peter.
Don't confuse or conflate two different passages from two different authors. Paul uses the language "new creation" to indicate our new status in Christ, which involves having the Spirit poured out in our hearts. This endowment is only the earnest on our final state, which Paul describes as our inheritance. Victory over sin is something we inherit and it comes at the Seventh Trump, he says.
Jesus uses the term "born again" to also indicate the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
Peter uses the term "divine nature" to indicate God's power in salvation.
2 Peter 1:1-4
To those who have received a faith of the same kind as ours, by the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ: Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust.
Just like the other apostles, Peter understands that those in Christ are in a transitional period known as sanctification, whereby the believer is being led by the Holy Spirit into all righteousness. They see things in terms of "now" and "then". Now we have the benefit of the Holy Spirit as a down payment of our inheritance. Then we will be changed. Here Peter indicates a future "becoming" whereby w partake of the divine nature and "escape the corruption that is in the world by lust." And as Paul says, this takes place at the Second Coming.
Paul uses the term "new creation" to indicate our new status. It's new because this state of existence was not seen in the world until Christ came, died, resurrected, and ascended. At that moment an entirely new category of human existence was created.
2 Corinthians 5:16-19
16 Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer. 17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. 18 Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, 19 namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.
Nothing in there about sin. He argues that we used to recognize Jesus "according to the flesh" which is Paul's way of indicating our typical sociological categories. We knew Jesus as a Jew, a man, a son of Mary, a son of David, etc. This is how people recognized Jesus when he came the first time. But now Jesus has ascended to sit at the right hand of the Father, far above all human categories. We now know him as the son of God through the power of resurrection and in this way, Jesus began the "new anthropos" i.e the resurrected, changed, person. Jesus was the first to be changed, which is why he is called the first fruits of many brethren.
The old anthropos came through Adam; the new anthropos comes through Jesus Christ. Right now we exist as a seminal form of the New anthropos, being led by the Holy Spirit. But at the Second Coming of Christ, at the Seventh Trump, we all will be changed -- we shall join him to stand among the new anthropos. Today, as Paul says, God is not counting our sins against us. This is a strange thing to say to those who have already been given victory over sin. Yes? As Paul says in Ephesians, what we have NOW is the Holy Spirit as an earnest of our inheritance. We don't yet have the inheritance.