A juxtaposition of sin, before and after regeneration.

Before regeneration, sin did not oppress me, nor did I constantly loose to it; I was sin. I did not seek to oppress it; for I did not possess the ability to even desire liberation from the bondage of my own nature. By necessity I chose evil, necessarily because of the fact that I could not choose good. My choice to sin was indeed free and what I desired to do; however, all of my desires were evil, rendering me a slave held captive by my own fallen nature, which in no way possessed the ability to please God. This limits the definition of free. I was free in the fact that I could make choices, whether to wear the blue shirt, or perhaps the red shirt, to commit this sin, or maybe that one. My freedom was not limitless, but rather it was limited to choosing which sin I would gladly partake in. To call myself totally free would be both a mistake in denotation and disgrace to the word itself. A toddler has the choice to choose which sin it will partake in as well, and I was no more capable than an impenitent giant toddler to choose God. Now, after hearing the word of truth, the gospel of my salvation, and also having believed and marked in Christ with a seal, the promised holy spirit, I encompass the ability, only by the monergistic action of the holy spirit, to have the slightest inclination to please God, which brings with it the ability to engage in war with my sinful nature that has not ceased to attempt to oppress the Good of which I now desire to do. It is not, however, that impeccability comes with regeneration, but the ability to war and potentially defeat sin is the product of salvation, along with the process of justification, and one day glorification as I my lowly body will be conformed to that of Jesus Christ.