Were you taught sinlessness, or did you discover it in the New Testament by yourself with God's direction?
I understood it by the Spirit, while contending with gainsayers against being without sin in Christ.
It is true, that much perfecting of the doctrine of the Bible, is by a disciplined honest correction of errors about the Bible.
I can honestly say, I have learned more about distinct Bible truth, but needing to show errors, than by normal reading and meditation.
That's includes my own errors, when I read where I've been wrong, and when others have shown it me.
Do you call it sinless perfection, or just sinlessness.
The problem here is two different things between heaven and earth: Pertaining to sinless and perfection.
Jesus the man was sinless, but not with
perfection of the Father in heaven. He had sinlessness in knowing no sin, by never sinning.
However, He did not have the perfection of heaven, where God cannot even be tempted to sin.
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
God the Word and Spirit was and is never tempted by the devil to sin in heaven. The Word made flesh was tempted as every man on earth.
And so, as the Son was tempted without sinning, the sons of God can have a perfect heart toward God, and live perfectly blameless as the Son, by overcoming all temptation to sin.
But no man on earth can be perfected as God in heaven, until the resurrection of the body unto life.
Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect,
Our lives can be made perfect by the faith of Jesus, and learning obedience in all things as he did. But
the spirit of our minds cannot be perfected, until being in the presence of the Lord by death of the body. It is in our renewed,
yet unperfected minds, that the spirit of the world tempts all men with the lust to sin.
The perfection of God in heaven is not being tempted. The perfection of the man Jesus and His saints, is to be tempted, yet without sinning.
Jesus was the only sinless man perfect toward God through all temptation and tribulation. The brethren of Jesus are the only ones now being made perfect toward God, as the Son was, through all temptation and tribulation as Jesus.
The gainsaying of unrepented sinners with corrupt minds and hearts of lust, is to accuse the sons of God as claiming to be perfectly sinless like Jesus was, as well as claiming to have the perfection of God on the throne.
To avoid the snare of fault-finding hypocrites,
And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
The Bible answer is: We are being perfected without sin in Christ Jesus, while being tempted to sin as He was. We are not perfectly sinless as He was, nor are we without temptation as God is in heaven.
Christian perfection in the body of the sinless Head, is being
perfected in obedience to God, by every trial of temptation and tribulation of our faith, while not sinning.
Jesus the Son as a man learned that same perfection of obedience, even unto death on a cross.
Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;
The error of unrepented Christian religion, is the bastardized 'growth' of only learning how to sin less, through partial obedience and disobedience together. It's the life-time religion of the double-hearted, that never learn to obey our Father
at all times, because they never repent of all their sins and trespasses
at any time.
Instead of being delivered from the wretchedness of the doubleminded in Romans 8, in order to move on to the perfection of blessedness in Romans 8. They take Romans 7 as their justification for doing both good and evil, and by faith alone claim the fraudulent blessing of Romans 8, when still walking after the flesh.
What Paul called wretchedness to be delivered from, they make a lifetime religion of accommodation.
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
It's basically the devil's doctrine of learning how to sear the conscience from the conviction for sinning by the Spirit of grace, while 'celebrating' grace for no condemnation while sinning with the devil.
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
All such doctrinal justification made for unrepented double hearted people, works to whatever degree in this life to soothe the conscience and harden the heart to repentance, but it all ends in the grave.
And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
Every honest sincere-hearted repented Christian saint, knows all these things
intuitively by the Spirit and word of God with a cleansed conscience. But by the necessity of refuting it perfectly point by point from the Bible, I have learned point by point how to perfectly expose it's hidden lies.