Amen! Even many Christians are confused about this because we have downgraded the terrible offense of sin to “mistakes.” I hear this in Christian music and popular preaching all the time.

We just need God’s help to pick us up, dust us off and give us a second chance. We don’t need to be saved. We’re just human after all and imperfect. The doctrine of sin is terribly offensive to us and we will avoid it at all costs in order to maintain the delusion that we’re basically good.

Never mind, as you point out, we’re surrounded by evidence to the contrary.