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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some people don't justify it.  Only God can forgive.  She's still a work in progress, etc.

It shows that being religious doesn't make you any different or better than anyone else.[/quote]

My religion teaches me that all men/women are created equal…and all sinners, too. Religious people are not better or worse than non-religious people. Religion doesn’t save you. Religion does not make any person perfect. Going to church doesn’t make you sinless.

In Christianity, Jesus took our sin onto himself and died to redeem us.

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Yes, but - sounds like a cop out to me.  Believe in Jesus, but ignore his rules and the rules of society when it doesn't suit you.   Using "We're all sinners" as an excuse to sin.[/quote]

Every believer has, at one time or another, lamented his or her inability to stop sinning. While we tend to think the problem stems from weakness in ourselves, the inability to stop sinning usually indicates a deficiency in our understanding of God’s strength. When we do not understand His power to save, forgive, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:9), we can get caught in a destructive cycle of sin, guilt, and fear, which leads to a lack of joy in our salvation, which leads to more sin.

Paul explains this in Romans 7:7–10. When we understand a law, like “do not covet,” our sin nature inevitably rebels against that law, and we covet. This is the plight of man—it is simply how we are.

The only way to break the cycle and stop sinning is to accept the fact that we cannot stop sinning. This may seem contradictory, but if a person does not stop trying to save himself, he will never rest in the knowledge that God has saved him. The joy of salvation comes from accepting the fact that God’s grace covers us, that He will change us and conform us to the image of Christ, and that it is His work, not ours (Romans 8:29; Philippians 1:6; Philippians 2:13; Hebrews 13:20-21). Once this reality is truly grasped, sin loses its power. We no longer feel the impulse to turn to sin as a means of temporary relief from anxiety, because the anxiety and pressure has been relieved once for all by Christ (Hebrews 10:10, 14). Then, the good works we accomplish in faith are done because of love and joy rather than out of fear or duty.

https://www.gotquestions.org/stop-sinning.html[/quote]

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