Thanks for asking...I quote Jesus Christ from John 8:34..."Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin."
If one "turns from" sin, they have "turned from" service to sin.
What you continue to fail to understand is your sinful nature still resides in you and gets its way at times, at least. But you deny that.
And the Bible refutes your opinions.
1 John 1-
8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us.
10 If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us.
You are NOT without sin. So you have deceived yourself.
Your claim that you have not sinned for x years is refuted by v.10.
Your claims are sin.
But, there is a remedy for your sin. As there is for all sinners.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
But it takes a bit of humility to admit our own sins and failures, huh.
If a man turns from sin, he turns from all sin.
Once again, the Bible refutes your opinions.
James 2:11 - For he who said, “You shall not commit adultery,” also said, “You shall not murder.” If you do not commit adultery but do commit murder, you have become a lawbreaker.
So you see, one can turn from adultery, but not murder.
Sin comes in quite a lot of packages. There is no doubt from Scripture that you haven't turned from all of them.
Men don't "turn from" lying and adultery one week and theft another week later and then repent of covetousness a month later and drug abuse in six more months.
"Turn from sin" means all sin.
On what basis do you make this claim?
Hmmm.
I thought I had already explained that John is addressing two very different kinds of walk/people in 1 John 1.
Sure you did. Those IN fellowship with the Lord, and those OUT of fellowship with the Lord.
Those who walk in light-God, and those who walk in darkness/sin.
Yeah, that's what I said.
Some of the lines/verses are aimed at those who still walk in darkness...they are the ones who cannot say they have no sin.
You're way over-simplyfing things. And it seems you don't even understand what fellowship is.
Consider a marriage. The couple at any given point are either IN fellowship with each other or they are NOT. What causes loss of fellowship? When one offends the other.
This is really a moment by moment situation. There is no such thing as a once for all "turn from sin" as if that covers every possible temptation.
My guess is that you are quite naive about what sin even is.
All men have committed sin. No one can say they have never committed a sin.
This is another verse aimed at those who won't even admit there is such a thing as sin...those from 1 John 2:26...they walk in darkness
Any time a believer sins, at that moment they are walking in darkness.
Some folks do walk in the light/God, and have had all their sins washed away by the blood of Christ.
This would be unbelievers of course.
They confessed their prior sins and had all their unrighteousness washed away.
To deny that is to deny the effect of Jesus on the world.
No, you are confused. Confession of sin on a daily (moment by moment) basis is parallel to washing feet in Jesus' day.
Recall John 13? And Peter not wanting Jesus to wash his feet? When Jesus said He must wash Peter's feet or Peter would have "no part" with Him. He was referring to fellowship, not relationship, as in salvation, because Jesus had just said that Peter was clean, meaning saved. Recall that Peter's response to "having no part" with Jesus was, "well then, give me a bath". But Peter was already clean. He only needed his feet washed.
Of course, Jesus was making a point about humillity, since feet washing in that day was done by the lowliest of servants. And the worst job of all.
In Jesus' day, people walked barefoot or in open sandals. On the same paths as the domesticated animals walked. Oh yeah, donkeys, goats, sheep, etc. You get the picture.
Imagine walking in dog poop and then entering the house of a very good friend, to have some fellowship. How much fellowship do you think you can have with your friend, whose house you just stunk up and messed his floors??? No fellowship.
That is how God views our sins. Like very offensive poop. So Jesus used foot washing as an analogy to confession, ala 1 John 1:9. We receive cleansing when we confess our sins.
But you are naively unaware of your own sins.