Not exact matches
This is the life - long
process of being
sanctified, that is, of becoming more holy.
Circumcision emphasizes, even as it also restricts and transcends, the natural and the generative,
sanctifying them in the
process: Under God's command, men willingly produce in their living and generational flesh the mark of their longing for God, of their desire for His benevolence and care.
Without the
process of biological evolution, which produced the human brain, there would be no
sanctified souls; and similarly, without the evolution of collective thought, through which alone the plenitude of human consciousness can be attained on earth, how can there be a consummated Christ?
We walk as human and even as believers who are indwelled by the Holy Spirit we are people with a continuing sin nature who are positionally
sanctified and otherwise in
process as to experiencial sanctification.
If it weren't so; if you will be
sanctified along a (lifelong)
process, then would Paul have just lied to us by writing «you were»?