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Thank you to everyone who participated in the voting<\/a>. To bring everyone up to speed, we are debating the issue of sanctification. Is it monergistic (something God does without the cooperation of the individual) or is it synergistic (something God does in cooperation with the individual)?<\/p>\n

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THE RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monergistic \u2013 50%<\/strong>
\nSynergistic \u2013 45.45%<\/strong>
\nI don\u2019t know \u2013 4.55%<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fascinating, huh? I had no idea how close the results were going to be. I think we can all come to an understanding of how sanctification is formed in us from some of the most prolific Reformed theologians to have walked the earth\u2026<\/p>\n

A. A. Hodge<\/strong> said,<\/p>\n

\u201cIt must be remembered that while the subject is passive with respect to that divine act of grace whereby he is regenerated, after he is regenerated he cooperates with the Holy Ghost in the work of sanctification. The Holy Ghost gives the grace, and prompts and directs in its exercise, and the soul exercises it. Thus while sanctification is a grace, it is also a duty; and the soul is both bound and encouraged to use with diligence, in dependence upon the Holy Spirit, all the means for its spiritual renovation, and to form those habits resisting evil and of right action in which sanctification so largely consists.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In The Reformed Doctrine Of Predestination, Loraine Boettner<\/strong> writes this,<\/p>\n

\u201cmany people confuse regeneration and sanctification. Regeneration is exclusively God\u2019s work, and it is an act of His free grace in which He implants a new principle of spiritual life in the soul. It is performed by supernatural power and is complete in an instant. On the other hand, sanctification is a process through which the remains of sin in the outward life are gradually removed . . . It is a joint work of God and man\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To conclude, Jonathan Edwards<\/strong> writes,<\/p>\n

\u201cIn efficacious grace we are not merely passive, nor yet does God do some and we do the rest. But God does all, and we do all. God produces all, we act all. For that is what he produces, viz. [namely] our own acts. God is the only proper author and fountain; we only are the proper actors. We are in different respects, wholly passive and wholly active.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cWe are wholly passive and wholly active\u201d, Edwards writes. Like many doctrines in Christian theology, the middle road is the correct one. Like many doctrines in Christian theology there are beautiful paradoxes that we will never be able to understand until we pass on to glory, and even then I don\u2019t know if we will. All that said, I think Edwards sums it up best when he says, we are \u201cwholly passive and wholly active.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cAnd you may depend upon this fact, that paradoxes are not strange things in Scripture, but are rather the rule than the exception.\u201d \u2013 Charles Spurgeon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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