"For a while we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were aroused by the law, were at work in the members of our body to bear fruit for death. But now we have been released from the law, having died to that which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the spirit and not an oldness of the letter." Romans 7:5-6. History has shown us that every human attempt to reach perfection apart from God ends in failure and even though it seems like the more logical and safer way to live in the end all it produces is death.