Post #4 you wrote:
"But we are everywhere in the NT commanded to engage in obedience by the Holy Spirit """in the process of sanctification, leading to holiness"""
Same post you wrote:
"True faith obeys in the Holy Spirit, """which is the process of sanctification leading to holiness""".
In Post #39 I shared Vines dictionary [later KJV dictionary's well] that disagrees with this statement you've repeatedly claimed: """sanctification leading to holiness""".
Same post I wrote: "Sanctification & holiness are one in the same.
In post #47 you wrote: Agreed.
The process of holiness leads to actual holiness, just as
the process of sanctification leads to actual sanctification, and
the process of sanctification leads to actual holiness,
Clare,
If you agree [with both Vine's & KJV dictionary's] that "Sanctification & holiness are one in the same. How can one lead to another???
BTW: The meaning of both is [separated or set apart]
You've repeatedly asked me to speak to your, QUOTE: "authoritative teaching" [via a carpet bombing of verses posted]. I have ZERO problem with any authoritative bible verse you posted.
My comment was specific to your claim: ""sanctification leads to holiness"". This unscriptural claim suggests we have a part/roll/work in becoming sanctified or holy.
Both are positional actions, each being God invoked, can never be lost & require no action on our part.
Again I'll clarify:
The word HOLY is [like salvation] a position. It means separated for a Godly purpose/work & one doen't lead to the other.
This action is invoked 100% by the Lord & isn't earned of worked for. Though the work/purpose we have been set apart for, continues until the day we meet the Lord.
Others reading this exchange can make their own decision as to which is accurate.
The Temple had HOLY vessels, utensils, a holy place & the holy of holies.
QUESTION: What act of good works or will did the vessels, utensils of sanctuaries do to be called holy?
ANSWER: None! They were purified by being anointed with oil (the oil was a foreshadow of the Holy Spirit) this anointing with oil set apart/sanctified/made holy the vessels & utensils.
Ex 40:9 And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the vessels thereof: and it shall be holy.
When a believer places their faith in Jesus sin atoning sacrifice & resurrection. Christ baptizes/anoints the believer with His Holy Spirit.
At this moment of the Christ's Holy Spirit Anointing the believer is: Saved/justified=declared righteous/sanctified & holy all in ONE anointing.
It's a God given position Paul refers to many times as "in Christ".
We are now saved/justified = judicially declared righteous by a sovereign God. Sanctified = separated/set apart, for a HOLY purpose/work.
We are not holy because of any work we do. We are holy because Jesus bought/took our sin & all it's due judgments.
Jesus anoints us with His Holy Spirit (a gift Acts 2:38 & 10:45), forgiving ALL our sins, freely imputing us with the gift of righteousness (Rom:4:6, 22 & 5:17), the gift of eternal life (Rom 6:23). Gifts are given & not earned/worked for.
Deut 7:
6 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God: the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
7 The LORD did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
8 But because the LORD loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
(MY NOTE: The were called HOLY because the LORD loved, choose & set them apart/sanctified them, for a particular purpose/work. Also see Deut 14:2)
All praise, glory & honor belong to our great God & Savior, Jesus.
Clare,
May His grace be multiplied to you & yours, JJ