Because sin dwells in everyone, everyone sins.
Not necessarily. For sin can be rendered dead within us (Galatians 5:24, Romans 6:6, Romans 7:8). Thus it has no more authority over what I do; and I am enabled to walk in freedom from and victory over sin.
Not in the sense that sinning is inevitable in my life (see 1 John 3:6, 1 John 2:17, 1 John 3:9)
A sinner is one in whom sin dwells. That is everyone.
I'll agree that all are sinners according to that definition; and that according to that definition, I myself am the chief of sinners.
You may not be slave to it, you may walk in fellowship with God, but you are still a sinner. And you still sin. Be encouraged, Christ has made provision for you. (1 John 9-10)
I know. He has not only forgiven me of past, present, and future sin(s) through His blood; but He has also enabled me to abide in Him (John 15:1-8, 1 John 3:6, 1 John 2:17). Which means that it does not necessarily be that I must still sin.
No, there is no impartation of righteousness.
We will have to agree to disagree.
Your doctrine of 'impartation' is nothing but law.
No, it is based completely in the grace of the Lord. We receive the Holy Spirit through faith (Galatians 3:14). The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts through the Holy Ghost (Romans 5:5). And this love is the fulfilling of the righteousness of the law within me (Romans 13:8-10, Galatians 5:14, 1 John 5:3, 2 John 1:6, Romans 8:4) and the bond of perfectness (Colossians 3:14, Hebrews 10:14). It is also not in word or in tongue only; but in deed and in truth (1 John 3:17-18). Thus faith without works is dead; while our salvation (the receiving of God's love through which we accomplish good works) is through faith in Jesus Christ alone, and not by works of righteousness which we have done (Titus 3:5).
You have turned the doctrine of imputation, which is solely based on the grace of God, into a legalism, whereby the believer must maintain that righteousness. As if he could.
We cannot maintain our own righteousness except by faith...and that makes it not our own righteousness except in that it has been given to us and we own it now. Our righteousness with the Lord is by faith from beginning to end and all the way through (Romans 1:17, Colossians 2:6, Galatians 3:1-3). So then, we are kept by the power of the Lord through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time (1 Peter 1:5). He that endureth to the end shall be saved (Matthew 10:22, Matthew 24:13, Hebrews 3:6, Hebrews 3:14).
The doctrine of imputation is against your bent towards legalism. Thus your need to invent this doctrine of 'impartation'.
I have no bent towards legalism. I know that I am saved completely through the grace of God.
While grace is not defined only as "unmerited favour" but also as "the enabling power of the Lord", "Goodness Rendered As Christ Empowers", "God's Riches At Christ's Expense", and as, "Getting what we don't deserve: heaven (as opposed to mercy, which is not getting what we do deserve: hell)".
The wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23, Romans 8:13, James 1:15-16); and there is no reason to believe that these verses are not speaking of spiritual death (eternal separation from the Lord).
I also am not against the doctrine of imputation. I hold to it dearly without denying its accompanying doctrine (impartation).
I know that God counts me as righteous because of my faith.
He counts you as righteous because of your faith. That is your identity in Christ regardless of whether you sin; as long as you continue to have faith in Jesus. And this makes your righteousness in Christ to be unshakable. Because for the one who truly has a heart faith in Jesus Christ (see Romans 10:10), faith is eternal/everlasting (see John 6:47).
So now, go and live like your identity would lead you to live. For you are the righteousness of the Lord in Christ (2 Corinthians 5:21).
Righteousness is not only positional; it is practical (1 John 3:7, Romans 5:19, Matthew 5:6).
Anyone with eyes to see and who has a logical mind; who does not have sin to hide and hold on to: will realize that these verses speak of a practical and imparted righteousness.