To the Enslaved [And The Free...?]

I just realized that there is some interesting "dialectic thinking" in the New Testament. Jesus says that He came to set those who believe in Him free from their sin [John 8:36]...yet Paul says in Romans [and elsewhere] that we are slaves to God [Rom. 6:22]. So which is it?? Well obviously, it has to be both!

As soon as we are born, we are born bad, not good [the human condition]. There is nothing good we can do that has eternal value while we are under this state [Rom. 3:23]. This poses a problem. Heaven as we all know it, is perfect, and we can't go bringing our crap-lives into it and still call it perfect. That's when Jesus steps in, takes our place [dies for us], and resurrects [leaving sin in the tomb]. Thus opening the gateway for all who believe in Him to get to be where He resides forever: Heaven. Therefore He has set us free from the bondage of sin [wrongdoing. That thing that we could do nothing but until Jesus stepped in....]. We [saved Christians] have been freed from the grip of sin, and now have the freedom to choose to do good. This is new. Before we could only do evil, and now we have the choice to do good. So we're free right?? Sounds like it until we hit something like Romans 6:22 which says: But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God...

Paul's point: We're always slaves to something. Well, actually, we're always slaves to one of two things: 1. Jesus 2. Ourselves [sin]. Conversely, if we are slaves to one of those two things, we are free from the other [that's where we see phrases like "free from sin" and phrases like "free from righteousness-Rom. 6:20]. Paul continues to extrapolate in Romans 6, saying the consequences of our voluntary slavery ["you present yourselves...as obedient slaves" Rom. 6:16].
The consequence are this if we choose ourselves :
But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
(Romans 6:21)

The consequence of choosing obedient slavery to Jesus is this:
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to *sanctification and its end, eternal life.
(Romans 6:22 )

*Sanctification is the process whereby we are continually growing more like Jesus*
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