Who Can Teach Us About Sinlessness

Lastly, if you want to look more thoroughly into whether human nature can attain sinlessness, from whom can we learn this more clearly than from those who “have crucified the flesh with its faults and lusts,” and to whom “the world is truly crucified”? They have not only rooted every fault out of their hearts completely, but are trying to shut out even the thought and memory of sin. And yet day after day they faithfully maintain that they cannot be free from the stain of sin for even a single hour. [a]