Progressive Sanctification

Please don't say we gave no texts. I gave you twenty, and you in-adequately addressed them. Some you did address, but not fully, and in a way that did not address my arguments.

EDIT: That's right, I forgot, all those texts are 'irrelevant'.
REALLY sorry.

In reference to Romans 6:19. The KJV translates the Greek word "hagiasmos" in this verse as "holiness".

"hagiasmos" means sanctification. Spiros Zodhiates, TH.D. defines the Greek word as follows:

(Numbers are Strong's key word numbers)

1. "Hagiasmos; sanctification, it is separation unto God (1 Cor. 1:30; 2 Thess 2:13, 1 Pet. 1:2). The resultant state, the behavior befitting those so separated (1 Thess. 4:3, 4:7), the sanctification resulting in the abstaining from fornication. There are two other Gr. words which are translated as holiness but they must be distinguished from hagiasmos. Hagiasmos, sanctification, is not like hagiotes or hagosune, the attribute of holiness, but is the state of being sanctified, not a process, but the result of a process. It is similar to dikaiosis (1347), not only denoting the activity of God's justification in Christ for the sinner, but also the result of that justification upon the sinner in making him just, recognizing the rights of God on his life. Therefore, hagiasmos (2 Thess. 2:13) means not only the activity of the Holy Spirit to set man apart unto salvation but also enabling him to be holy even as God is holy. See hagiotes (41); hagosune (42), and hagiazo 37)."

That's really helpful. Thanks!

Justification and sanctification should be distinguished, lest we fall into legalism. We are being progressively sanctified and more and more conformed to Christ. In progressive sanctification we more and more die to sin and live to righteousness.

Okay.