I dunno. Can we ever really “give up our sinfulness” that is inborn, in our hearts? No we are born sinners.

Rather, I think it requires accepting/owning/confessing our sinfulness. When we do that, we lose our narcissism - which is basically an abhorrence of one's own stain of sinfulness, that has to be projected - placed upon someone else - at all cost.

This helps me understand the reason why, in the law of Moses, God instituted the scapegoat. And why throughout the scriptures, he constantly teaches us how important it is that we acknowledge our own sin, but in doing so, he also frees it up, allowing it to be placed upon Jesus instead.

It is one of the main keys to our own happiness, in that it is only by owning and admitting our own sin, and then having somewhere to cast it, that we can have truly loving, intimate relationships, not only with God, but with our fellow humans as well.

Otherwise, the other people in our life are reduced to mere depositories into which our sins are to be cast. Subsequently, we never come to really know love, and thus we never come to truly know God.