The issue I think is when people confuse having no sin as in never sinning compared to like you said not being affected by past sins.
The thing I struggle with the most is the fact I mess up and even though in God's eyes because I am clothed in Christ and his blood and his righteousness I am clean but because of my struggles with depression and a very low view of myself all I see is a disgusting filthy worm covered in sin.
Yet this is the main issue I made with another user who claims to never sin, that kind of theology while I think it is productive to a point in keeping the mind set of being holy in all our ways can make someone like me or even worse my friend who struggles with all the same rthings plus ocd and anxiety would see that kind of thinking and feel even worse about themselves.
If my friend saw and believed in that doctrine it would destroy him he already worries every day if he is saved and is every day attacked by negative thoughts due to his mental illness.
This is yet another reason to have a correct understanding of doctrine, it isn't just about truth or having the correct beleifs but more than that it also affects other people even if you don't realize it.
The whole "if I dare to believe this it would kill me argument is not valid"
May the truth of God kill me if it must.
I put myself in Gods hands.
It is possiable to cease from sin.
I will require you to be read to embrace suffering.
You can cease from sin for a moment, for an hour, for a day. for a week, for a month.
The suffering and the spiritual battle around you will grow the longer you stand.
But God is able.
No one learns to stand without falling down alot.
But if you believe you will not just lie there like a dead man.
You can stand and you will stand if you put your faith in God to do so and are ready to pay the price.
Keep on asking, keep on knocking.
All healthy babies eventually learn to stand and walk and jump and run.
Not like there will not be a lot of falling down along the way as we grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord and who we have become through him.
But God was emphatic "You will be Holy because I am Holy"
I will not fear falling and fail to stand.
I will step into the light and be exposed before God not live in fear and darkness.
My faith is in the Love and power of God to do in me what Only He can DO!
What Only He Can Do!
I will not deny His word for me that is for all his children.
If I don't have it, it is because I don't ask.
Or I ask in unbelief and should not then expect anything.
The removal of sin in the life of a believer is not optional if you actually believe, you also believe he can do what we can not.
Is your faith in your sin, in your filth, your wormness or will you believe in God and step into the light and let him do with you as he pleases?
Because you believe in his love as who he is. That he shows kindness to evil people.
God is choosing for himself from those who deserve only death, men to make into what he himself is.
This is Salvation, this is what it means to believe in God and abandon yourself to his will for you.
You are saved from sin --- To the righteousness of God.
Not some accounting mistake, no looking at you with rose colored glasses.
A deposit of the righteousness of God in you via the Holy spirit united to your spirit.
Those who believe have this, and if they do and do not neglected it, it will grow and eventually consume you.
The more it does the more you have confidence that your faith is not misplaced.
Some say only what is sanctified remains, it alone as gold and precious gems survives the fires that will test all men's work-ing out of their salvation. and those who do not will suffer loss in regards to salvation yet still be saved as by fire.
Salvation's work is all about who we are becoming in Christ. it directly relates who what we shall be when we see him.
I want to go as far as i possibility can, God whatever it takes.
1 Tes 5:23
Eph 1:23
2 Cor 1:7
Heb 11:6