Hi Stoneoffire,
We are not sin. Sin is the breaking of God's Law (1John 3:4) Jesus came to save us from our sins as we have faith in His Words (1John 5:4; John 8:31-36)
God bless
A sinner is before conversion a sin-forgiven saint, that will still sin is after conversion...we are not perfect after conversion but we can no longer claim title to sinner, but sin-forgiven saint, blessed, righteous, faithful, but will still SIN.
Jesus showed us this in the Gospels and Paul and other nN writers did as well.
This distinction is also found in the OT, particularly in Job, Proverbs, the Psalms and Ecclesiastes. Those books of wisdom defined the condition either as:
The wicked/sinner/scoffers/lazy/fool/chaff
-OR-
The blessed/righteous/faithful/tree
Psalm 1 sets this distinction in the first Psalm of the first books of Palms. Psalm is like Mark 4.13 when Jesus said if you do not understand the meaning of this parable how will you know the meaning of all the parables. If you do not understand Psalm 1 how will you understand the other Psalms.
Psalm 1
Title: The Righteous and the Wicked Contrasted.
How
blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of
the wicked,
Nor stand in the path of
sinners,
Nor sit in the seat of
scoffers!
[SUP]2 [/SUP]But his delight is in the law of the Lord,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
[SUP]3 [/SUP]He will be like a
tree firmly planted by streams of water,
Which yields its fruit in its season
And its leaf does not wither;
And in whatever he does, he prospers. [SUP]4 [/SUP]
The wicked are not so,
But they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
[SUP]5 [/SUP]Therefore
the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
Nor
sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
[SUP]6 [/SUP]For the Lord knows the way of
the righteous,
But the way of
the wicked will perish.