Because no one has ever been able to achieve sinless perfection, how can you have any assurance of salvation?
First of all, you are going to have to make a decision to either ignore and reject the Scriptures already provided for you to consider.
Secondly, the Scriptures teach us that we are to be holy and perfect just as God is perfect.
1 Peter 4:1-4 (EWEB) 4 Therefore,
since Christ suffered for us in the flesh,
arm yourselves also with the same mind; for
he who has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 2 that
you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the
will of God.
1 Peter 1:14-16 (EWEB) 14 as
children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance, 15 but
just as he who called you is holy,
you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior; 16 because it is written, “
You shall be holy;
for I am holy.” [Leviticus 11:44-45]
Luke 9:23-25 (EWEB) 23 He said to all, “
If anyone desires to come after me,
let him deny himself, take up his cross daily and
follow me. 24 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but
whoever will lose his life for my sake,
will save it. 25 For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world,
and loses or forfeits his own self?
How is that possible to be perfect and holy? According to God's Word, not me, we are perfect and holy in God's sight as we live to follow Lord Jesus into a sanctified life of righteousness and love (
Colossians 3:1-17). If this is our mindset and way of life then, if we should sin in weakness and confess our sins, God will forgive our sins as we continue to live out sanctified lives. In this way, we are always holy before God, cleansed by the Blood of Christ.
This is not my opinion, rather, that is what God states to us in His Word, as follows:
1 John 1:5-10 (WEB) 5 This is the message which we have heard from him and announce to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 6
If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in the darkness, we lie, and don’t tell the truth. 7 But
if we walk in the light,
as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and
the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son,
cleanses us from all sin. 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
1 John 2:1-4 (WEB) My little children, I write these things to you so that
you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. 2 And he is the
atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world. 3
This is how we know that we know him:
if we keep his commandments. 4 One who says, “
I know him,” and
doesn’t keep his commandments,
is a liar, and the
truth isn’t in him.
1 John 3:7 Little children,
let no one deceive you.
Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. 8 Whoever
continues in sin is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. 9 No one born of God
makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him; and
he cannot keep on sinning, because he has been born of God.
By a true Gospel Faith, a sinner repents and commits his life to renounce sinful passions, and to live to follow Lord Jesus into a sanctified life of righteousness and love. That is the
true faith by which
God’s Spirit dwells in us to guide us to be victorious in the new life of salvation we committed to when first believing. If those who are in the Faith, as described, should sin in weakness and repent, then God forgives; and so, the Christian remain holy onto God (
1 John 1:6-7).
If a Christian falls away from the faith in deliberate sin, then he should repent quickly. Perhaps God may still grant their repentance that they may recover themselves (
2 Timothy 2:24-26), because Christians can become hardened by continual sin, which is death (
Hebrews 3:12-15).
Hebrews 3:12-15 (EWEB) 12
Beware,
brothers and sisters, lest perhaps there might be in
any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in
falling away from the living God; 13 but exhort
one another day by day, so long as it is called “today”, lest
anyone of you be
hardened by the
deceitfulness of sin. 14 For
we have become
partakers of Christ,
if we hold the beginning of our confidence
firm to the end, 15 while it is said, “Today if you will hear his voice,
don’t harden your hearts, as in the rebellion.” [
Psalm 95:7-8]