You are holding to the classic modern church error. Inability.
When people truly believe they cannot stop sinning then they won't. This belief is rooted in the teaching of the "sin nature" as something you are "born with." Such a belief redefines sin to simply be a symptom of a condition of which you were born with rather than a crime against God.
It is a deadly error!
If a sinner sins because that is how he was born then the sinner is not at fault. A sinner who believes such a thing cannot be truly sorry for their actions because the fault is placed on their condition at birth. In reality it is putting the blame of sin on God which is blasphemy.
Sin is a moral issue, it is a choice. It is true then when someone willfully chooses to suppress the light in favour of yielding to their flesh they sell themselves into bondage to sin. Sin hardens the heart and is very deceitful. Over time a natural predisposition to sin will develop and that is what you read of in Eph 2.
Jesus Christ came to set us free from this bondage through the cross. We are to die with Him in the baptism of repentance that we may be raised up by the power of God to newness of life, quickened by His Spirit, and reconciled through the propitiation of His blood for our past sins.
Sin is rooted in rebellion to God and thus to cease from rebellion means to align oneself with the will of God. Without the will of God there can be no cessation of sin, hence we cannot stop sinning without the drawing of God.
Yet this drawing of God, through His grace, has appeared to ALL MEN. Through the light of conscience, preaching, the Bible, by example etc. Men choose to sin when they resist this light and that is why they are under condemnation. It is a heart issue. The sinners heart is defiled by selfishness rooted in the self will. In other words a sinner wants to be as God, their own god, walking in their own righteousness.
This "accepting of Christ" is nonsense and is not found anywhere in the Bible. When the rich young ruler came to Jesus and asked what did he have to do to inherit eternal life Jesus told him to keep the commandments. When the rich young ruler said that he already did then Jesus said he lacked one thing, he had to sell all he had and come and follow Him.
This made the rich young ruler sad because he has many worldly possessions and was not willing to forsake them so he left Jesus.
In this incident Jesus was teaching what it costs to follow Him. It costs everything. We have to be willing to lay aside self which means to "deny ourselves and what we want" and to pick up our cross "which means to walk with our wills crucified not yielding to the passions and desires of the flesh" and then we will be able to follow Jesus.
Very few are willing to do that.
Every person has the ability but not every person has the will.
It is also important to note that suppressing the light in favour of darkness is extremely dangerous because God does not strive with men forever. He does give people up to a reprobate mind and He does send strong delusion. Anyone who ends up in that state would find it impossible to repent because the light in them has been removed.
As I have stated in other posts the error of inability goes back to what Augustine of Hippo taught. It was that man who brought the teachings of unconditional election and total depravity into church orthodoxy thus destroying the repentance message.
When people truly believe they cannot stop sinning then they won't. This belief is rooted in the teaching of the "sin nature" as something you are "born with." Such a belief redefines sin to simply be a symptom of a condition of which you were born with rather than a crime against God.
It is a deadly error!
If a sinner sins because that is how he was born then the sinner is not at fault. A sinner who believes such a thing cannot be truly sorry for their actions because the fault is placed on their condition at birth. In reality it is putting the blame of sin on God which is blasphemy.
Sin is a moral issue, it is a choice. It is true then when someone willfully chooses to suppress the light in favour of yielding to their flesh they sell themselves into bondage to sin. Sin hardens the heart and is very deceitful. Over time a natural predisposition to sin will develop and that is what you read of in Eph 2.
Jesus Christ came to set us free from this bondage through the cross. We are to die with Him in the baptism of repentance that we may be raised up by the power of God to newness of life, quickened by His Spirit, and reconciled through the propitiation of His blood for our past sins.
Sin is rooted in rebellion to God and thus to cease from rebellion means to align oneself with the will of God. Without the will of God there can be no cessation of sin, hence we cannot stop sinning without the drawing of God.
Yet this drawing of God, through His grace, has appeared to ALL MEN. Through the light of conscience, preaching, the Bible, by example etc. Men choose to sin when they resist this light and that is why they are under condemnation. It is a heart issue. The sinners heart is defiled by selfishness rooted in the self will. In other words a sinner wants to be as God, their own god, walking in their own righteousness.
This "accepting of Christ" is nonsense and is not found anywhere in the Bible. When the rich young ruler came to Jesus and asked what did he have to do to inherit eternal life Jesus told him to keep the commandments. When the rich young ruler said that he already did then Jesus said he lacked one thing, he had to sell all he had and come and follow Him.
This made the rich young ruler sad because he has many worldly possessions and was not willing to forsake them so he left Jesus.
In this incident Jesus was teaching what it costs to follow Him. It costs everything. We have to be willing to lay aside self which means to "deny ourselves and what we want" and to pick up our cross "which means to walk with our wills crucified not yielding to the passions and desires of the flesh" and then we will be able to follow Jesus.
Very few are willing to do that.
Every person has the ability but not every person has the will.
It is also important to note that suppressing the light in favour of darkness is extremely dangerous because God does not strive with men forever. He does give people up to a reprobate mind and He does send strong delusion. Anyone who ends up in that state would find it impossible to repent because the light in them has been removed.
As I have stated in other posts the error of inability goes back to what Augustine of Hippo taught. It was that man who brought the teachings of unconditional election and total depravity into church orthodoxy thus destroying the repentance message.