I think, we'll have to take a step back and look at this in the context of identities.
Once you were a sinner. Even though you were a sinner, you didn't sin all the time. There were times you were doing good things. You loved your family, you loved your friends. You gave to charities, you forgave some people who wronged you. Heck, you even followed some of the ten commandments, you didn't murder, didn't commit adultery, etc. You were not actually a terrible sinner. But sinner, you remained. It was who you were, without Christ and no amount of good doing could've changed that.
Now, when you accepted Jesus' (re: Jesus fulfilled the law in your place) sacrifice on the Cross for you. Your identity changed.
You became righteous in Christ. By the same token now, you remain righteous by Christ's sacrifice, alone. You don't always pray, you don't always do good, you don't always give. Heck, you even broke some of the ten commandments. You don't keep the sabbath, and let's go down deeper, you've committed adultery, or you don't always believe that God actually meant every Word He said (i.e. where sin abounds, grace abounds so much more). You're not exactly a very good Christian, by your standards. But righteous, you remain. It is who you are now, in Christ and no amount of bad doing could change that.
Biblical reference: Romans 5, and so much more.
Once you were a sinner. Even though you were a sinner, you didn't sin all the time. There were times you were doing good things. You loved your family, you loved your friends. You gave to charities, you forgave some people who wronged you. Heck, you even followed some of the ten commandments, you didn't murder, didn't commit adultery, etc. You were not actually a terrible sinner. But sinner, you remained. It was who you were, without Christ and no amount of good doing could've changed that.
Now, when you accepted Jesus' (re: Jesus fulfilled the law in your place) sacrifice on the Cross for you. Your identity changed.
You became righteous in Christ. By the same token now, you remain righteous by Christ's sacrifice, alone. You don't always pray, you don't always do good, you don't always give. Heck, you even broke some of the ten commandments. You don't keep the sabbath, and let's go down deeper, you've committed adultery, or you don't always believe that God actually meant every Word He said (i.e. where sin abounds, grace abounds so much more). You're not exactly a very good Christian, by your standards. But righteous, you remain. It is who you are now, in Christ and no amount of bad doing could change that.
Biblical reference: Romans 5, and so much more.
Lets face it for what it is......SIN......regardless of ones salvation, Man will always sin. Having said that, when one is saved and the Holy Spirit is within them, they tend to walk in the way of Jesus, yet they still sin Daily and cannot help it for this fleshly body knows no other way. A faithful person who is saved, will have to fight the act of sinning everyday until death as Paul did.