Do you claim to be perfect "in the sense" that you are sinless, without fault or defect, flawless, 100% of the time, exactly like God the Father? *The question requires a YES or NO answer. Also, God the Father has not done anything wrong.
Can you please explain to me how you became a Christian?
Claiming to be without sin tells me that you are deceived (1 John 1:8).
1 John 1:8-10 is crystal clear and there are no contradictions in the Bible.
If we claim to be without sin, (as you do) we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. *Take heed to those words.
John is saying if one not only says they have not sinned (vs. 10) but also have no sin. In verse 8 it's a matter of recognizing sin in our lives and in verse 10 it's a matter of denying that we have ever sinned at all.
Not in of themselves, but believers receive the remission of sins and are accounted as righteous in Him (Acts 10:43; Philippians 3:9).
If they claim to be sinless (in of themselves) yes, they are liars. I see that you are promoting your false doctrine of sinless perfection on the Carm Discussion Forum as well.
About saying one is sinless I will give you Paul’s answer.
(1 Corinthians 4:4-5) “True, my conscience does not reproach me at all, but that does not prove that I am acquitted: the Lord alone is my judge. There must be no passing of premature judgment. Leave that until the Lord comes: he will light up all that is hidden in the dark and reveal the secret intentions of men's hearts. Then will be the time for each one to have whatever praise he deserves, from God.”
Notice he said his conscience does not reproach him. Paul had the mind of Jesus Christ, and if God had anything to reproach Paul he would have known.
You asked how I became a Christian. That is a good question, and the answer is short, but the explanation may be long. I began to be a Christian the same way everyone does, God called me.
(Matthew 22:14) “
For many are called, but few are chosen.”
Jesus called me when I was a child, and his call always had me wanting to do his will. But doing his will just was not possible for me to do all the time. My mistake was that I accepted the teachings of the Church.
The Churches teaching kept me away from the truth. For years I prayed to never sin again, and even asked God to let me die before I would sin again. But no I did not die, nor was I able to always do God’s Will.
I continued my mistake, and got very involved in my church. I went to Mass, and Communion every day. Taught adult information classes for the church. Was even the president of the churches social club. But all of that did not give me the power to do God’s Will.
My understanding is that most all people who claim to be Christians have a similar story to tell. But I believe most people like what their church teaches, and truly don’t want to live God’s Will.
After trying so hard to do God’s Will for the first forty years of my life, with not much success, Jesus began to answer my prayers. Jesus began by telling me he loved me, and I was to open up my hart and let his light shine. Jesus also began to ask me to be a minister for him, but for me a minister was being a priest. I was married, and had two children at the time, so I assumed Jesus meant just to get more involved in the church. God let me believe my assumption for two years.
Then I was given the Holy Spirit who began to teach me, and gave me the grace/power to do God’s Will. It took me two years before I actually understood that my assumption about what Jesus’ call to the ministry was wrong.
During those two years I became a Christian. The Holy Spirit gave me the grace to be able to always do God’s