We are ALL infected and impure with sin
1 john 1:8
If we claim we have no sin, we are only fooling ourselves, and not living in the truth
Isaiah 64:5-8
You gladly welcome those who do good, who follow godly ways, but you have been angry with us for we are not godly, we are constant sinners, how can people like us be saved? We are all infected and impure with sin, when we display our righteousness, they are nothing but filthy rags, like autumn leaves, we wither and fall, and our sins sweep us away like the wind, yet none calls on your name, or pleads with you for mercy, therefore you have turned away from us, and turned us over to our sins, and yet, o Lord, you are our Father, we are the clay, you are the potter, we all are formed by your hand
Roman 3:23
For everyone has sinned and fallen short of the glory of God
Jeremiah 17:9
The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked, who knows how bad it is
Psalms 14:2-3
The Lord looks down from heaven on the entire human race, He looks to see if any of them is truly wise, if any seeks God, but no, all have turned away, all have become corrupt, no one does good, not.a single one!
any that makes a bold claim that they are without sin is just fooling themselves
we all sin, though we strive not to
You did it again. You completely blow off what the Bible specifically teaches and instead isolate and proof text verses out of their context.
The first verse you used was this one...
1Jn 1:8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
Yet here is the context...
1Jn 1:5 This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
1Jn 1:6 If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
1Jn 1:7
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
1Jn 1:8
If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
1Jn 1:9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1Jn 1:10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
1Jn 2:1 My 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:
1Jn 2:2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
1Jn 2:3 And hereby we do know that we know him, if we keep his commandments.
1Jn 2:4 He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
1Jn 2:5 But whoso keepeth his word, in him verily is the love of God perfected: hereby know we that we are in him.
1Jn 2:6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.
1Joh 1:8 IS NOT a verse teaching an ongoing state of sinfulness like you imply. 1Joh 1:8 is in the context of approaching God in humility and confession in order to be CLEANSED FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.
Have you been cleansed from all unrighteousness?
Look at verse 7 for it teaches that one must be walking in the light in order to be CLEANSED OF ALL SIN by the blood.
1Joh 1:8 is a REPENTANCE verse. 1Joh 1:8 is what the Prodigal Son did after forsaking the rebellion of the pig pen, he approached his father in humility confessing his sins.
1Joh 2:1 speaks of "not sinning" and sinning being an IF. The word "IF" in the Greek is "ean" and it is associated with "uncertainty." Thus when John is speaking of sinning he is not teaching that a Christian sinning is a "sure thing." You on the other hand are asserting that the sin never stops and that 1Joh 1:8 is John teaching that anyone who claims to be walking in holiness and purity is a liar.
John also wrote this...
1Jn 3:6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
1Jn 3:7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
1Jn 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
1Jn 3:9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
1Jn 3:10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
Do you just get a big black marker and cross that passage out of your Bible? That passage completely contradicts your assertion that Christian's are always sinning.
The truth is clear that you don't want to forsake your sin and thus want to believe a Gospel message where you can be forgiven whilst you keep sinning. You have itching ears.
2Ti 4:2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
2Ti 4:3 For
the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;
2Ti 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
What is Isaiah 64 teaching? It is a prayer by Isaiah to God where he is reflecting on the corporate state of the men of his nation. Look at the context...
Isa 64:4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
Isa 64:5
Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
Isa 64:6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
Isa 64:7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
Isa 64:8 But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
Look at verse 5 and see the contrast Isaiah makes between "doing right" and "doing wrong." He is not teaching that no-one has ever done right but rather that the people he identifies with (his nation) have turned away from God. It is their righteousness that is as filthy rags before God. Not the righteousness of people like Abel (Heb 11:4), Noah (Heb 11:7), Daniel and Job (Eze 14:14).
Yet you won't allude to those passages will you? No, you argue in favour of "perpetual unrighteousness" whilst we are in the flesh.
When Isaiah is writing that "none are calling on his name" (Isa 64:7) it is in the same context as this...
Psa 14:1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psa 14:2
The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
Psa 14:3
They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
Psa 14:4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
Psa 14:5 There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
Which is the context Paul was quoting it in when he wrote this...
Rom 3:9 What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;
Rom 3:10
As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
Rom 3:11
There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
Rom 3:12
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
The context is the "rebellious people" and NOT the righteous. It is the rebellious people (like you) that do not understand, that do not seek after God, that have gone out of the way, that are unprofitable, and do not do good.
Paul in Romans 3 is comparing the Jewish people with the Gentile people and is asserting the fact that BOTH groups of people need Jesus Christ as saviour for they have all sinned. Read the Romans 1,2 and 3. That is the clear context. He is not arguing in favour of perpetual unrighteousness in people.
How about Jeremial 17:9 which you quoted? Here is the cotnext...
Jer 17:5 Thus saith the LORD;
Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD.
Jer 17:6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.
Jer 17:7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is.
Jer 17:8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Jer 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
Jer 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
You really think that the pure in heart are desperately wicked?
Mat 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Or those who have...
Act 15:9 And put no difference between us and them,
purifying their hearts by faith.
Or those who have...
1Pe 1:22 Seeing
ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
1Pe 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
You pick SINGLE verses and present them completely out of context to defend a life of ongoing sin. You also IGNORE what the Bible teaches about RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Therefore it is clearly apparent that you do not believe what the Bible actually teaches but instead worship a Jesus of your imagination. You have done this...
Rom 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
Rom 1:18 For
the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
Rom 1:19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them.
Rom 1:20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Rom 1:21 Because that,
when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Rom 1:22
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Rom 1:23
And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Rom 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Rom 1:25
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
Rom 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Rom 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Rom 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Rom 1:29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Rom 1:30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
Rom 1:31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Rom 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
2Th 2:10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because
they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
2Th 2:11 And
for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
2Th 2:12 That they all might be damned
who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Rev 13:15 And
he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
I hope and pray that you and all those who hold to the same view wake up and come out of this deception.
Jesus warned that MOST who profess His name will be deceived and will be rejected at the judgment.