I guess you think you found something God cannot do, in spite of what scripture says. (Mark 10:27)
Your "analysis" of what I believe falls far short of what I believe.
The only folks free of the penalty of sin are those who quit committing sin.
Since Christ died for all sin, the penalty has been removed. He paid the penalty.
That should get you to thinking, how can that be since unbelievers will end up in hell. Right! But not as a penalty for their sins. Because eternity has only 2 "residences"; either with God or without God.
The only people qualified to be with God are those who believed in Christ and received the free gift of eternal life.
Those who rejected the free gift, either actively or passively (didn't care, didn't pay attention, no interest) don't receive the free gift of eternal life and are not qualified to be with God.
Remember that God created the lake of fire for Satan and his angels. Matt 25:41 - “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Thank God for freeing us from sinful desires, as it is written..."And they that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts." (Gal 5:24)
No lusts...no evil desires.
So then, you don't believe what Paul wrote:
Gal 5:16 - So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Paul isn't commanding peope to be saved by "walking by the Spirit". He's commanding believers to be filled with the Spirit, which is the ONLY WAY a believer will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
But having no truth in you means that you can't understand this verse.
First, because the word "penalty" is not in the bible in the c=verses I live by.
Second, I am free from sin, so free from its penalties too.
Well, I know that you aren't free from sin. I've already shared the pertinent verses. But being self deceived and having no truth, I understand why you keep rejecting the truth.
The truth has freed me form committing sin, just as Jesus said it would in John 8:32-34.
The apostle John says you don't have the truth in you, because you "claim to be without sin".
1 John 1:8 - If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
Deceptions keep men locked up into sin.
John said you are self deceived.
Truth frees them from sin.
John says you don't have the truth in you.
What you fail to realize is that it is the CLAIM TO BE WITHOUT SIN that is the problem, which led John to pronounce such "claimers" to be self deceived and having no truth in them. But that is exactly what v.8 says.
So they can say they have no sin...right?
No, John SAYS those who make that claim are self deceived and have no truth in them.
Isn't the first requirement of being a bishop..."A bishop then must be blameless,..."?
My bishop fulfills that requirement.
We walk in the light, God, wherein is no sin.
Nope. Examine v.6 "If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth."
You are claiming to "have fellowship", yet, because you also CLAIM TO BE WITHOUT SIN, you are self deceived and have no truth in you, which is the SAME as "walking in the darkness.
John describes YOU as lying and "not living out the truth". Because "the truth is not in you".
Both v.6 and v.8 describe you to a T. And your bishop, if he claims what you claim.
Is your church a "holiness" church? That would be my guess.