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can you stop sinning?

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I think unconditional love does motivate total selflessness.

One of the points I made earlier was that, since you are already fully united with God (God is omniscient), why not invite God to share as much God-Love with you as your present level of development permits?

Something I haven't said, paradise is in my opinion an achievable goal before you die, and it is a simple matter of "turning on" to focusless, unconditional love. "Lustful thoughts" ? "Angry thoughts" ? They literally no longer exist, and you are willing to sacrifice everything to help other people, Although it is conceivable somebody could still torture you into doing something you don't want by inflicting tremendous physical pain upon you.

I think being sinless, to the height you set the bar, is not so very difficult unless you defeat yourself by saying to yourself, "impossible! the bar is so high!"

yet I set the bar even higher. To sin means to miss the mark. How can your perception not miss the mark, when your perception is based on precious little bits of information that can't ever be proven to be accurate? The only way to live totally without sin, by my definition, is to so totally unite with God you perceive what God perceives - All the angles at once.

What I hear you saying is that being sinless is easy -- all we have to do is be like God. The only problem with this is that we are not God, and being like Him is inconsistent with our fleshly nature. The only hope we have of being anything like God is a result of His Spirit living in us. But, even that is not so much us being sinless as it is Him exhibiting His perfection through us.
 
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i think being sinless to the extent I detected mention of in your post is as easy as flipping a switch,

but true sinlessness may be impossible, as it may be impossible to actually become God

that is what i meant to say.

As to Him exhibiting His perfection through us, imagine perfectly receiving and interpreting God's Communication (your experience), and dialogging back (reacting)
 
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