In other words, in your view God cannot defeat sin nor change people. What are you doing here then? Fortunately, the bible says the opposite and so did Jesus Christ who came to accomplish exactly that. But then,
you do not have the "
mind of Christ."
Even a first year divinity student learns that God chose not to annihilate sin
but rather to defeat it. And, He chose to defeat it progressively instead of instantaneously. There are many possible reasons for this, but two prominent ones involve (1) the freedom God gave to humans and (2) God's desire to produce a more godlike (godly) product in the process. Defeating evil without destroying freedom while at the same time perfecting free creatures that want to be perfected appears to be at the heart of God's plan. He chose to permit evil in order to defeat it, thus bringing about a greater good.
Salvation-->Sanctification-->Glorification
The process of sanctification can occur quickly for some or be slow and methodical for others with one virtue producing another (Rom 5:3–5) but is always pictured as pressing on toward the goal (Phil 3:12, 14) as something that is not yet perfect but one day will be (Phil 3:12) in which God will eventually sanctify a person wholly (1 Thess 5:23).
Because sanctification is contrary to the fallen state into which people are born and become acclimated, and because it is a process, the imagery of being transformed and renewed is used (Rom 12:2; Eph 4:25). If we ask what such a transformed life actually looks like, we can do no better than to look at the passages known as paraenesis (exhortation)—commands in the form of lists of virtues to practice and vices to avoid (Rom 12:9–21; Eph 4:25–32; Phil 4:4–9; Col 3:12–17; 1 Thess 5:12–20; Heb 13:1–5).
So you're first assertion that we're all "unalterably" "sinful" is false and your implication that it doesn't matter is also false though I'll not take the time in this post to explain to you how and why it greatly matters.
For genuine Christians who experienced a supernatural spiritual rebirth and been endowed with God's
Holy Spirit embarking upon a course of progressive sanctification as "new creatures in Christ" that
will be perfected in eternity in glory
have already had their sinful state altered and in eternity they will be perfected.
Which leads us to your next false assertion, that there's no difference between an unrepentant prostitute who rejects the gospel of Jesus Christ and a pastor whose life has been radically changed by the gospel of Jesus Christ but whom is presently struggling with alcoholism (and needs to step down from his role as pastor and address the problem in his life as a Christian joining the enormous number of other Christians that have found deliverance and complete abstinence from alcohol). How utterly ridiculous of you. Of course there's a difference and I've already showed that there is.
You see my ignorant new friend; it is God's Holy Spirit, mediated by Jesus, which is the agent of moral regeneration and apart from His mysterious work one cannot be a truly moral person nor even enter the kingdom of God (John 3:5–8) much less be sanctified over the course of their life here and be perfected in eternity.
For, it is the regenerate (e.g. a biblical motif of salvation that emphasizes the rebirth or re-creation of fallen human beings by the indwelling Holy Spirit) who possess more than just a residue of Imago Dei in this fallen world that are empowered by God Himself to desire God's holiness in their personal, civic, and political lives (Rom 6:13 RSV; cf. Rom 7:5–6, 10; 8:6, 10) and yet another very important reason why it matters.
In total there are two possible states for a person: regenerate or unregenerate. Because truth is found in correspondence, to know whether someone is unregenerate or regenerate all that's needed is to match what corresponds to regeneration or unregeneration accurately. God's Word explains the what and the how.
Furthermore, if people claim to be regenerate and live wicked lives filled with blatant sexual immorality such as homosexuality, John states that the regeneration of those people should be doubted for their life shows that they are still a child of the devil in an unregenerate state.
God's normative morality is very simply that which aligns with God's holiness or in theology that which corresponds to God's holiness qualified by an accurate application of His special revelation.
To put it simply: If you are regenerate, then you have a new godly nature from God Himself that has altered what you are as a person to your very core and your position with respect to God. This new godly nature naturally aligns with and seeks God's holy normative morality. Obviously, though I have not yet really broached the topic and won't address it in this post to save space, this matters for societies which themselves have a scriptural relationship to creator God that cannot be ignored without consequence.
This is why you don't find
genuine Christians living lives of great wickedness and seeking to persecute other Christians who uphold God's holiness in their lives and organizations though you do see fake or professing Christians (unregenerate people who merely profess to be Christians but are not in reality) living lives of great wickedness and seeking to corrupt and defile God's holiness.
Which leads to your next false assertion that there is no difference in sin. While all sin has the power to separate an unsaved person from God, the bible teaches there are degrees of sin and respective consequence.
Read:
Apologetics Press - Are All Sins Equal?
https://carm.org/different-levels-degrees-of-sin
We're all sinful, unalterably so, and the only way in which a person can be not sinful (as in, not sinning at all, ever, ever, ever) is to be dead. I mean, you obviously think sinful thoughts, you obviously sometimes, as do we all, act on those thoughts. And in some form or another, you'll be a sinful person until the day you're dead.
There'll be sins like homosexuality that you don't engage in, there'll be others like anger that you try to stop yourself indulging in, and there'll be others of some kind that you don't even bother to abate. What's the difference between you, or me, having thoughts of hatred arising (a sin in and of itself) and not removing that from our lives in its entirety, and a homosexual having sex with another member of the same sex and being quite happy not to bother removing that part of their lives?
By the bibles' own definition, we're all trapped in sin, daily. We can fight against it, of course, but never be fully rid of it in our temporal daily lives and I don't think any gay Christian can refuse to acknowledge that their actions are sin, and I don't think any other Christian can refuse to acknowledge that one or more of their actions, in some form or another, are sin.
So the pastor is really no better than the prostitute.
I often wonder, in this regard, why do we choose people whose sins are less repulsive (the pastor with a drinking problem at home) over others whose sins are no more sinful (the gay guy that gets daily abuse for being gay)?
Seems to me live and let live is a lot more fair than picking one sinful person to be socially superior to the other sinful person. Social elitism is really quite inhuman like that.