Misconceptions About Sanctification: Progressive Sanctification Analyzed

IS IT BIBLICAL?

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This is the word for sanctification in the New Testament:

Strongs: hagiasmos: consecration, sanctification Original Word: ἁγιασμός, οῦ, ὁ
Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine
Transliteration: hagiasmos
Phonetic Spelling: (hag-ee-as-mos’)
Definition: consecration, sanctification
Usage: the process of making or becoming holy, set apart, sanctification, holiness, consecrated

I found a book about sanctification. I am going to discuss a few passages in the book. I do not want to clutter up the article with references. Quotes from the Bible are in italics. I think a beginning statement is close to the truth. 1. ***Perhaps it would not be an exaggeration to say that the average Christian of our time has very hazy ideas about the nature and meaning of sanctification***.

2.***Sanctification is said to be the work of God’s free grace whereby we are renewed in the whole man after the image of God - and are enabled more and more to die unto sin and live unto righteousness***. The first half of this statement is true. The other half is not Biblical. Jesus became sin who knew no sin, so that we are made the righteousness…