Sin is only attributed to us if it is willful, and a true Christian does not willfully sin, so if he does what is called a sin, it is not attributed to him as a sin, since it wasn't willful, and the blood of Christ had already paid for it.
Thanks for your thoughtful answer as to the difference between willful and unwillful sin. (BTW, I haven't heard the Holy Spirit referred to as "it" in a very long time. Do you call the Holy Spirit "it" just out of habit, or, do you believe that the Holy Spirit is not a person ((by person, I mean a living being with a personality))?) Anyway, I see what you mean by willful vs. unwillful sin. One can "slip" into unwillful sin, but willful sin is entered into with full knowledge.
What about sin which is entered into with full knowledge (one knows it is wrong), and which one wishes he could conquer, but which he feels powerless to say "no" to, such as a long-term sin which has become a habit? Would it be a "willful sin" or an unwillful sin?
No! I believe the Holy Spirit is a separate but same enmity of God, an individual. I hadn't noticed I used the word "it", and I apologize for that, my thoughts must have been too far ahead of me and my one typing finger.Lol
What about sin which is entered into with full knowledge (one knows it is wrong), and which one wishes he could conquer, but which he feels powerless to say "no" to, such as a long-term sin which has become a habit? Would it be a "willful sin" or an un-willful sin?
How's about a "willful sin covered by the blood of Christ"?
If a person can acknowledge he considers it a sin, and one that he can't seem to overcome, it certainly isn't willful, if he hates it, and knows he will never be content until it's conquered.
That’s what Christ did for us when he took our sins to the cross, he didn't just die for the sin's we could overcome, but for those we couldn't.
If we could simply and emediately overcome everyone of our sin's, then what need was there for Christ?
Some times these sin's that seem so giant to us at one time in our life, simply pass away in time, almost as though God intervened and took them away from us.
I smoked a pipe for 35 years, and I had quit probably 100 times, but I could never stay quit for long, then one day I said, this isn't fair to my wife, not only the smoke she was exposed to, but if I were to die from it, and leave her alone with the thought that,.. if only he hadn't been so selfish, he would still be here. I prayed for help, and I quit that day, and I had no withdrawal problems or temptations to start again, and I didn't even throw out all my pipes or tobacco until years later.
It was so easy, I knew God had given me a miracle and I thank him to this day. I sometimes think though, I probably won't be credited with overcoming this, because I didn't have anything to do with it. (^g^)