Ok, but you seem to be saying that our imperfect sanctification may threaten our salvation since you maintain that justification alone is insufficient, and sanctification is necessarily included in salvation. Or is regeneration, cleansing, santifying all part of justification in the end? Is it one whole package? Does a person, once justified, have assurance of salvation?
An imperfect sanctification will not threaten our salvation. A person who displays no sanctification in their lives may have grounds to question the legitimacy of their justification and regeneration.
Once a person is justified they are as good as saved. Much clean up work needs to be done and the details need to be worked out, but they have gained entry into the kingdom of God. This does not mean that once a person is justified that they have an assurance of salvation. To be assured that we are, indeed, saved may take a long time to develop.
In Catholic theology, once a person is justified, their salvation is assured; nothing stands between them and heaven. But from that point they're expected to continue to walk in that justice, and grow in it even, impossible unless they remain in Christ and He in them. This communion is actually the essence of their justice, their spiritual life. This is where cooperation with God, working out our salvation with he who works in us, comes into play.
Would that this were the case! But sadly this is not Catholic teaching. The Roman Catholic Church teaches that a justified person can lose their justification and they distinguish between initial and final justification. A person may be justified initially but not justified finally if they lose their justification along the way through mortal sin.
Within the Catholic system there can be no assurance of salvation because justification is always in question.
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