The penalty for sin was death, we all deserve that. The only solution to our dilemma was that a perfect Sacrifice take that penalty for us. There was only one perfect Lamb that could be offered and that was Christ Jesus.
Romans 6:23
"For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."
He is the perfect Lamb of God.
John 1:29
"29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world."
Christ takes away the sin in us, not our human effort, on any level, not before salvation and not after it.
To think that we, the wicked and sinful people that we are, could keep salvation after we become born again, through our own human efforts is nothing less than silliness.
If our dying could not wipe away our sin what makes us think that not dying, but merely human effort could? A sinful creature cannot take away his own sinfulness.
Isaiah 64:6
"For all of us have become like one who is unclean, And all our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment; And all of us wither like a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, take us away."
When we become born again our spirit is changed into a new creation, but we still reside in this body of death. We have to continually prayerfully fight against the flesh, asking God to continue to cleanse us until He takes us home.
Romans 7:24
"Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?"
1 John 1:10 (Written to Believers) "If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us."
Those who think they can walk in perfection after they have been born again, lack faith in what Christ told us. The more they try to be good in their flesh the further from the Lord they will become. Arrogance reigns in their hearts, humility cannot reside in the same body with arrogance.
It is Christ Who offered himself, no human being could do what He did.
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