Why does God hold us accountable for sin when we don't choose to be born?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

Hi, it's Bill Meyer, along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day.

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at Questions at Core Christianity.com. First up today, let's go to Mitchell, who's calling in from

Iowa. Mitchell, what's your question for, Adrile? Hello, can you hear me? Hey, Mitchell, I can hear you.

My question for you is, is it possible to have

victory of sin in this lifetime, like specifically sexual sin? Hey, Mitchell, thank you for

calling in with that question. What we don't experience as Christians in this present age is spiritual perfection.

Or, you know, sometimes people talked about, you know, you could get to the place in your Christian life where you just, where you were sinless in one one sense where you're so sanctified that you just

don't struggle with sin anymore that's not biblical but that doesn't mean that the spirit of god

doesn't work or can't work in us to put to death our sinful deeds.

And that growth in holiness or growth in God's grace isn't a reality for us, because I think

that it is.

And Paul in Romans chapters 6 through 8 talks about this.

Now, he emphasizes there a couple of things. One, in chapter

six, Mitchell, he emphasizes the fact that through faith and baptism, you have a new relationship

to God and to sin. Even when we struggle with sin, we shouldn't view ourselves as slaves to sin,

as, you know, I'm just worthless, that kind of a thing.

No, through faith in Jesus, you have been freed, loosed from your sins so that they don't have

dominion over you anymore.

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