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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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To: Mad Dawg

Yes that is essentially correct. You believe the process of glorification requires a period of time after death (in purgatory). Protestants believe this happens instantaneously, just as Justification does.

And please know I never said sanctification “stops” at death. It is completed at death because Christ finishes it.


73 posted on 11/22/2010 10:16:07 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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