The problem of unbelief
If you are not pure you want to explain why you have done everything, yet
there still is a block, guilt, unresolved issues.
Because temptation or knowledge of evil cannot be removed, but the effects
of sin can be healed and dealt with.
The condition of Adams separation from God lead us into sin, and without
getting right with God, we are sinners doomed to destruction.
Until we submit our authority before Christ we will resist any claim to our
throne or control. This is sin in and of itself, but is the very thing we inherit
by being separate from God, in rebellion, yet knowing good and evil.
I think this separation is sin itself, because implicit in it is the rejection of love
and life. Everything springs from this and without reestablishing communion
everything else flows, along with death.
Until we are forgiven, washed, purified, the bridge and rebellion always stand.
Adam brought separation of man from God, that meant men are doomed to die.
For if the many died by the trespass of the one man
Rom 5:15
For as in Adam all die
1 Cor 15:22
And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man
1 Cor 15:49
What are mortals, that they could be pure, or those born of woman, that they could be righteous?
Job 15:14
There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands;
there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away,
they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good,
not even one.
Rom 3:10-12
Who can bring what is pure from the impure? No one!
Job 14:4
Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
Psalm 51:5
but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. 15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
James 1:14-15
For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
Matt 15:19
So Christ in bringing cleansing and forgiveness, re-establishes communion and
the walk of righteousness.