David,

 

My answer could be the same as Paul's to this issue:

 

16.  Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
 17.  But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.
 18.  For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.
 19.  For I through the law am dead to the law, that I might live unto God.
 20.  I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.
 21.  I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

 

You said:

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I absolutely agree, for attempting to keep the law can never save us but only helps us from sinning again.

 

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So you believe that attempting to keep the law helps us from sinning again.

 

Right here is where we disagree because I believe that to try to keep the law is to remove us from the free gift of complete righteousness.

 

Now, to address your concern about this, does this mean that I believe that I am free to go out and steal for example? Of course not but my motivation for not doing it is not because of a fear of the law but for me to steal anything would be for me to not be trusting God to provide whatever it was I was stealing. God desires a relationship with us.

 

Romans 7:

17.  Now then it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me.
 18.  For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing

 

1 John 3:

9.  Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

 

Our flesh cannot be righteous as our new man cannot sin. Trying to reform the old man will not work but allowing the new man place to become all that he is meant to be by faith will result in the fruit of the Spirit to manifest and remain in your life.