Well that sounds good..still... how do you explain then those ‘without Christ’ who also choose not to sin??....
Pinging a couple others to this for their input as well because I,m just not sure
No one can choose not to sin. We are born in sin, and we all roll in our own filth just like a dog rolls in the dirt. Paul says all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God.
There may be people without Christ who try to do the right thing, just as those of us in Christ try to do the right thing, but God tells us our righteousness is like filthy rags -— and those are our best acts! The only way to choose not to sin (and we really can’t until we see Christ face to face and are given our new bodies and new names) is to have our filth covered by the Blood of Christ. Then God gives us His righteousness and credits even our feeble acts as if they were Christ’s.
I guess what I am saying is someone without Christ may look like a good person to us, but thats not how God sees it.