How so DC, ? straight from Bible! You cant change it because you dont like it, obedience (works) goes hand in hand with faith and grace, cant have one without the other.
BTW. you mentioned personal sanctionification as tho it is seperate from salvation,is that what you believe or am I seeing what you said wrong?
NOW YOU HAVE ARRIVED AT THE TRUTH.
THAT'S THE POINT. Sanctification IS SEPARATE FROM Salvation.
SALVATION is the FREE GIFT from GOD, with absolutely NOTHING FROM US. THAT IS what GRACE IS. We receive that which we CANNOT EARN and DO NOT DESERVE. Our Human Spirit was brought to ETERNAL LIFE by the Holy Spirit, and the human spirit was born DEAD, because of the inherited sin nature from ADAM.
Sanctification, is a Product of LOVE, and it says that HOLY SPIRIT poured GOD's LOVE directly into our GOOD SOIL in our Hearts (human spirit). After we are SAVED BY GRACE ALONE, we will want to Please GOD out of the Harvest of that LOVE that was sown in your Heart (human spirit). Therefore our Obedience spawns out of GOD'S LOVE IN US. And Sanctification is the Process where we in our bodies become more and more like CHRIST. So Sanctification will NOT BE COMPLETE until we get the Glorified Body at the Resurrection, WHILE SALVATION is Complete the MOMENT we genuinely repent, and receive HIM as LORD, which means MASTER.
You see SALVATION is related to our HUMAN SPIRIT.
And SANCTIFICATION is related to our BODIES, becoming more like Christ.
When you try to mix the Two, you CREATE ALL KINDS OF CONTRADICTIONS in Scriptures.
Titus 3:5-8 (HCSB)
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He saved us [note the past tense verbiage]—
not by works of righteousness that we had done,
but according to His mercy, through the washing of regeneration and renewal by the Holy Spirit.
6 He poured out this ⌊Spirit⌋ on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
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so that having been justified by His grace [note the past tense verbiage], we may become heirs with the hope of eternal life.
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This saying is trustworthy. I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed God might be careful to devote themselves to good works. These are good and profitable for everyone.
Romans 5:1-10 (HCSB)
1 Therefore, since
we have been declared righteous by faith [note the past tense verbiage], we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
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We have also obtained access through Him by faith into this grace in which we stand [note the past tense verbiage], and we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God.
3 And not only that, but we also rejoice in our afflictions, because we know that affliction produces endurance,
4 endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope.
5 This hope will not disappoint ⌊us⌋,
because God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit
[note the past tense verbiage] who was given to us.
6 For while we were still helpless, at the appointed moment,
Christ died for the ungodly.
7 For rarely will someone die for a just person—though for a good person perhaps someone might even dare to die.
8 But God proves His own love for us in that
while we were still sinners, Christ died for us!
9 Much more then,
since we have now been declared righteous by His blood [note the past tense verbiage], we will be saved through Him from wrath.
10 For if,
while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son [note the past tense verbiage], ⌊then how⌋ much more, having been reconciled, will we be saved by His life!
John 5:24 (HCSB)
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“I assure you: Anyone who hears My word and believes Him who sent Me has eternal life [note the past tense verbiage] and will not come under judgment but has passed from death to life.
So SALVATION IS SPIRITUAL and happens the moment you genuinely Believe, and SANCTIFICATION is conforming the Body to be LIKE CHRIST's which will take a lifetime until the resurrection.
NOTE these last two verses, may well explain how long ago you were SAVED:
2 Timothy 1:9 (HCSB)
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He has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus
before time began.
Revelation 13:8 (HCSB)
8 All those who live on the earth will worship him
[Antichrist],
everyone whose name was not written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slaughtered.
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