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To: cinciella
It looks like even your Westminster Confession lists them as 2 separate things. Good works can and should flow out of a sanctified (consecrated) heart, but sanctification does not equal good works.

The subject was faith that is not alone. Justification is a forensic declaration of holiness. We receive a new heart when we are justified (Ezekiel 11:19, 36:26). Sanctification is the process of being made holy in this life. Good works are the evidence of ongoing sanctification in the believer.

563 posted on 02/16/2011 7:27:43 AM PST by topcat54 ("Dispensationalism -- an error of Biblical proportions.")
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To: topcat54

Good works are partly the evidence of sanctification, but they are not the same as, as you originally stated.


618 posted on 02/17/2011 6:38:57 AM PST by cinciella
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