Yes, we sin - a hundred times - YES! Does that constitute who we are? NO!
Let's look at some facts concerning what the New Testament says about believers:
- Born again
- Crucified
- Dead to sin
- Washed
- Redeemed
- Alive to God
- Saints
- Sons of God
"While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
Once we were sinners who could only sin - now we are Saints who sometimes still sin.
Sin now resides in the flesh. But we are not in the flesh, but in spirit. He left us with the flesh of sin for a purpose - to help us turn to Him, experience Him and be transformed by Him.
Everyone points out Paul saying he was the "chief of sinners." (I've heard this for years.) Show me where he says Saints are sinners!
Would you hang all of your belief on this one statement of Paul's, or go by the myriad of things the NT says about us (of which just a few are listed above)?