Yes. But the point I was making is that sincere and genuine born again believers who have received Christ and His Spirit do not typically start out practicing lawlessness and iniquity. We are righteous living though not perfected yet, and as well God's righteousness is being imputed to us by grace. But yes, any believer may slide and be tempted or deceived and drawn away or fall away etc, after coming to know the Lord....the devil prowls around like a roaring lion seeking who he may devour.....hence the warnings. If anyone tries the Lord and grieves His Spirit enough His longsuffering may come to an end, His Spirit may depart, and then His righteousness is no longer being imputed to them any more....in other words they are fallen away.
I consider it to be tremendously presumptuous to call people pretenders on the basis of disagreement over doctrine, when you don't know their lives and hearts.
I think anyone who is living righteously and not knowingly living in wilful sins can exclude themselves from that, although it is God who judges us. It's our new man who is seated in heavenly places with Christ, not our flesh nature/old man. If Christ is in us, we are where He is....His Spirit within us is not restricted to time and space.. And it is our old flesh nature that we are to reckon as being crucified with Christ. But the more we go along the more we realize what we are without the Lord, our old nature ....utterly unworthy and wretched..
It's not we in our old self that is holy and righteous...it is our new man and how God is choosing to graciously see us through the cross. Nobody should be claiming their flesh nature is holy and righteous, because it just isn't, it's the opposite. Yes, I agree, humility, honesty and the fear of the Lord, and deep repentance, Godly sorrow, confessing our sins/faults, etc, amen.