IT is a narrow line. We are called to be holy, yet we are incapable of it. We are to flee from sin yet all fall short of the glory, all sin. quote]
God would have never called us to be Holy, if we are not capable of achieving it, we all have sinned and we all have sin , but we don't have to sin you mentioned Romans try Romans 6
Ro 6:1What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?Ro 6:2God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
The inspired Word of God tells us not to sin, Jesus told several people go and sin no more, and man says well Jesus didn't mean what He said He knows that they couldn't have not sinned no more .
1jo 2:1My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
here the Word of God has said that we have a choice IF Any man sin , doesn't say when any man sins but IF any man sins look at these verses
1co 10:13There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
with every temptation God will provide you a way out, not ye were able to resist But God will make a way out . now watch this
2pe 2:9The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:
with these last two verses. if one says that we still have to sin after coming to Christ is to say that God lied. He does not provide away out for his people and that God can not keep His promises and keep His people/ strengthen His people so that they can resist temptation.
It is a very dangerous doctrine to twist 1 John 1:8 and say that the bible says that we have to sin, it says that we have sin But nothing about that we HAVE to sin 1jo 1:8If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
if we have flesh we have sin , but if we walk in the Spirit and not in the Flesh then we don't have to sin.
Ro 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.Ro 8:3For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:Ro 8:4That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.Ro 8:5For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.Ro 8:6For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.Ro 8:7Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.Ro 8:8So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.Ro 8:9But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.