To: Secret Agent Man
We believe in Justification. It is instantaneous....
....The rest of your life on earth is the process of Sanctification....
....The final thing that occurs for believers at death is Glorification....when we are absent from the body, we are present with the Lord. At death the sanctification process ends, and God brings His believers into glory, made perfect and holy....
.... God has promised to make us holy and that He will complete the good work begun in us.... Nicely summarized, SAM. Thank you for posting it, and for pinging me to it.
36 posted on
11/21/2010 8:51:51 PM PST by
Alex Murphy
("Posting news feeds, making eyes bleed, he's hated on seven continents")
To: Alex Murphy; Secret Agent Man
By that reckoning the only important difference (that I can see, open to correction) is that we imagine an instant or a period of time after death when there is still some sanctification going on, while you say that it stops at death.
It is interesting in this connection to wonder about the usual Catholic teaching that "Purgatory" (which, at rock bottom is NOT held necessarily to be a place or duration) will end at the end of the world. I've never worked that out to my complete and detailed satisfaction.
64 posted on
11/22/2010 6:15:09 AM PST by
Mad Dawg
(Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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