God can do anything, right?

[Aquila]

Originally Posted by MarieA27

We all here believe that God can do anything, right?

Then why do it seem that most people here, believe that God can't help us stop sinning?

While looking through the threads, and reading the posts, the prevalent theme seems to be all about how we can't stop sinning, we can't live holy, we can't be righteous, and whenever someone says that God commanded us to be holy, people end up berating that person, telling them that they're teaching false doctrine.

I know that we can't do it of our own selves or by our selves, out of our own power, but if God is here helping us, leading us and guiding us, lending us a helping hand, why can't we?

God isn't "helping us" to stop sinning. "Us" is the problem. God DOESN'T want to make YOU a better you. YOU must be CRUCIFIED. Your identity eradicated through faith, reckoning your new identity as being "IN CHRIST". Any improvement to "self" is "self-righteousness".

The questions you present are answered on the basis of soteriological understanding. It all depends on how one views justification, regeneration, and sanctification.

And here's another issue... people are so behavior oriented (works mentality) that they fail to grasp "nature". You see... even IF we disciplined ourselves to "behave" rightly and didn't "commit sin"... our very nature (with regards to our flesh) is still "sinful" and repugnant to God.