Strange how your Carnal Nature left you immediately and Paul had to struggle with Sin...” I do the very thing that I do NOT want to do.....”
A Christ- like life is not a Moment to achieve, but a goal to pursue......
Philippians 3:2.......” I DON’T mean to say that I have already reached PERFECTION , but I press on...”
Paul admitted that he could not reach the level that YOU claim to have attained .....its obvious that you and Mr.Bueller are mistaken.....ANSWER this charge ! Tell me why you guys do not preach a False ,Perverted Gospel.....
BB, there is a difference in timing between being made sinless and all our past sins have been cleansed by taking away our carnal nature, and giving us a divine nature that only does righteousness, until they have truly become perfect and holy. And Paul knew these steps and where he was in the process. The steps are in 2 Peter 1:5-11.
5 But also for this very reason, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue knowledge, 6 to knowledge self-control, to self-control a]">[
a]perseverance, to perseverance godliness, 7 to godliness brotherly kindness, and to brotherly kindness love. 8 For if these things are yours and abound,
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b]barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9 For he who lacks these things is shortsighted, even to blindness, and has forgotten that he was cleansed from his old sins.
10 Therefore, brethren, be even more diligent to make your call and election sure, for if you do these things you will never stumble; 11 for so an entrance will be supplied to you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
In Paul's LAST letter he had reached it. And like Peter said, he grew and made his call and election sure and didn't stumble.
6 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure is at hand. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing. 2 Timothy 4:6-8
Stop taking verses out of context and relying on them to feed your false doctrines that will cause you to never be holy, and without holiness, no man shall see God. Don't make Jesus have to say to you, "I never knew you." Ask Jesus to baptize you in the Holy Spirit, if for nothing else like gifts, to become sinless. Then live the steps to perfection in the fruit of the Spirit.