zippy2006
Dragonsworn
Here, I believe, is the primary difference between Protestant and Catholic understandings of sanctification. The Catholic Church conflates justification and sanctification.
The Catholic Church says that justification includes some measure of sanctification:
This disposition or preparation is followed by justification itself, which is not only a remission of sins but also the sanctification and renewal of the inward man through the voluntary reception of the grace and gifts whereby an unjust man becomes just and from being an enemy becomes a friend, that he may be an heir according to hope of life everlasting. (Titus 3:7) -Council of Trent, Decree on Justification, Chapter XII
If anyone says that men are justified either by the sole imputation of the justice of Christ or by the sole remission of sins, to the exclusion of the grace and the charity which is poured forth in their hearts by the Holy Ghost, (Romans 5:5) and remains in them, or also that the grace by which we are justified is only the good will of God, let him be anathema. -Council of Trent, Canons Concerning Justification, Canon 11
If anyone says that men are justified either by the sole imputation of the justice of Christ or by the sole remission of sins, to the exclusion of the grace and the charity which is poured forth in their hearts by the Holy Ghost, (Romans 5:5) and remains in them, or also that the grace by which we are justified is only the good will of God, let him be anathema. -Council of Trent, Canons Concerning Justification, Canon 11
The Bible presents them as being separate and distinct acts of God's grace.
Where does the Bible do that?
In the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, the Lutheran World Federation agreed that justification has a sanctifying effect (see paragraphs 22-24).
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