Accepting that you are a sinner is not that easy. You must look hard at yourself and stop comparing your failings to that of others.
Sin isn’t a matter of who is worse and who is better. Sin is failing to live up to the goodness and perfect standing of God.
We are all of us sinners. Not one is better than the other. Our sins may be different but our sin nature is not. In God’s eyes, all sin is abhorrent. All sin keeps mankind from communicating and having a relationship with our Father.
We were doomed to live eternally separated from God. This wasn’t how it was supposed to be, it was our own choice. We had no way out, no do-over, no doing of good deeds to earn our forgiveness.
God wanted a way for us to be reunited with him. The sin of the world had to be paid and not one man, woman or child had the ability to do so. They could not do it for themselves, let alone for everyone.
God himself, in the person of his only son Jesus, had to come to the earth and be born just like everyone else.
Jesus came in humble fashion, born to low income and young parents. He was born in a manger because there was no room for him elsewhere.
That epitomizes the how the world first received him. There was no room for a savior in the life of man. No one wanted to be reminded that they had failed and could not fix it.
At that time, just like now, there were those who thought the way they lived was sufficient to make restitution with God.
That is a false theology. Mankind can never fix the damage they have done to themselves and to the entire creation. The universe is falling apart because of us and Jesus was the only individual born on this planet who could fix it.
Jesus is fully man and fully God. That concept is something that humans cannot understand. That is okay because we are only human and cannot fathom the existence and magnitude of God.
Jesus preached love and understanding. He showed people that their lives were entrenched in sin. At the same time, he told them how they could be saved from what they had done.
He then took the necessary step to pay for our sins. He was sinless and yet he accepted the punishment for all of the sins of man, past, present and future. He hung on a cross in disgrace. It was the most painful and humiliating of deaths.
He gave up his life and went to the grave. Then, as he was God, three days later he resurrected himself.
He had conquered sin by living sinlessly and accepting the price as death. By coming to life again, he conquered death. He had fixed the breach between God and man. He removed the curse of death from mankind forever.
He offered this forgiveness and restitution at no cost to everyone. He still does. It is free and you can be free of the consequences of sin by accepting Jesus, his forgiveness and his salvation.
Romans 8:1-4
Therefore there is now no condemnation [no guilty verdict, no punishment] for those who are in Christ Jesus [who believe in Him as personal Lord and Savior].
For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has set you free from the law of sin and of death.
For what the Law could not do [that is, overcome sin and remove its penalty, its power] being weakened by the flesh [man’s nature without the Holy Spirit], God did: He sent His own Son in the likeness of sinful man as an offering for sin.
And He condemned sin in the flesh [subdued it and overcame it in the person of His own Son], so that the [righteous and just] requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who do not live our lives in the ways of the flesh [guided by worldliness and our sinful nature], but [live our lives] in the ways of the Spirit [guided by His power]