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Yeah, I have pretty bad black and white thinking and I am a perfectionist, so everything is a lot harder. The sins I fall back on would be lust / masturbation and I would say a hatred for people - when I stray from God I can get sociopathic at timesWhat are your "old sinful ways"? Are you robbing and raping? Or are you simply thinking lustful thoughts and masturbating? There's quite a difference between those two "sinful ways."
It sounds to me like you're swinging between the pendulum of attempting to be holier than is humanly possible and then feeling as though you've failed miserably when you simply can't achieve this sort of holiness. This just isn't realistic - for anyone, let alone someone who's 21.
Not knowing any more than I do, I'd say "Lighten up." I've been a Christian for 51 years, and I probably couldn't say there has been a half-day when I haven't sinned in some respect. A fumbling, stumbling Christian walk isn't "backsliding" - it's simply the inevitable result of still being in the flesh.
I often do think preachers do a disservice by messages suggesting they have somehow risen above or defeated all the temptations that plague the rest of us. No, they haven't - take my word for it.
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