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on a side note, this topic is not about salvation. We don't need to be without sin to be saved. Holiness and perfection are to do with the state of the heart towards God, and that being whilst clothed in Christ's righteousness not our own.
Being without sin has benefits for a more secure walk with God (for the sinless person the evil one cannot touch him), greater confidence in our prayers (a clear conscience) and resultant increased faith = greater and faster answers to prayer, and more answered prayers since God won't hear us if we are in sin, greater peace of mind and greater love (love is not made perfect in anyone who fears due to their persistent sinfulness), and greater testimony and witness towards the unsaved (nothing turns an unbeliever off Christ more than a Christian who is shown to be a sinner).
Being without sin has benefits for a more secure walk with God (for the sinless person the evil one cannot touch him), greater confidence in our prayers (a clear conscience) and resultant increased faith = greater and faster answers to prayer, and more answered prayers since God won't hear us if we are in sin, greater peace of mind and greater love (love is not made perfect in anyone who fears due to their persistent sinfulness), and greater testimony and witness towards the unsaved (nothing turns an unbeliever off Christ more than a Christian who is shown to be a sinner).
If you do, what was it that changed your mind so I can rejoice with you? If not, then what do you believe about God's imputed righteousness? You can't be double-minded about it, you have to hold to the one and reject the other. A sinner that comes to God believes he has either been saved and justified by grace through faith in the cross or he has not. He is either translated from the power of darkness into the kingdom of God's dear Son or he has not. Is there some middle ground that the scripture teaches that we should know about? What might that be? Is eternal redemption just that, ETERNAL, or did Jesus obtain some other kind of redemption for us?