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Joe k said:
I do not deny the power of the Spirit to make one hate what they once loved and love what they once hated, but the progression in holiness is carried too far by some and become navel gazing and introspection
It seems to me that your rejection of progressive sanctification is based upon subjective experience, e.g., your having met and/or read of abuses of the truth rather than basing your view upon solid biblical ground. scratchchin There are always going to be those who "abuse" the truth regardless of what the teaching is. But that abuse does not and cannot alter the truth. All truth is like a razor's edge. It is very easy to lose one's balance and fall off to either side of it. Wherever one finds truth you will also find myriad more who diminish, distort or deny it. wink

John Murray held no less firmly to progressive sanctification as he did definitive sanctification. Again, it is NOT and "either/or" situation but rather a "both/and" one.

In His grace,

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