The Eastern Church believes in
sanctification after death, and perhaps the doctrine of purgatory really asserts nothing more; but can Rome ever say that in speaking of it as «temporal punishment,» which the pope may in whole or part remit, it was in error?
Not exact matches
And especially
after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the
sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money when the basket is passed.
We are talking about a quantum - jump in the
sanctification of the minds of mainline Protestants, involving repentance
after 200 years of drifting from the Reformation response to the Bible.
What is needed is a quantum - jump in the
sanctification of the minds of mainline Protestants, involving repentance
after 200 years of drifting from the Reformation response to the Bible.
His will for our lives,
after all, is
sanctification — I read this in the bible!
Our personal needs are down the line (verses 11 - 13), only
after the
sanctification of God's name and for his heavenly government to restore genuine peace to the earth (as in the Garden of Eden), as seen at Revelation 21:3 - 5.
After one is justified, then one's
sanctification (sometimes called ongoing or progressive justification) does involve works.
The fellowship was not only symbolized but also effected by the common meal, some kind or kiddush or «
sanctification,» not now of the Sabbath but of the first day of the week, (Prof. E. F. Scott has advanced the view, in his recent work on The Nature of the Early Church (1941), that the Christian observance of Sunday resulted from the celebration of the common meal
after the Jewish Sabbath observances were over.