sanctification

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A christian is someone that believes in the teachings of Jesus Christ, namely salvation and sanctification.

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Quick take

The process of making holy; hallowing, consecration.

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The clearest senses and uses of sanctification gathered in one view.

noun

The process of making holy; hallowing, consecration.

noun

(theology) The (usually gradual or uncompleted) process by which a Christian believer is made holy through the action of the Holy Spirit.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sanctification.

noun

The process of making holy; hallowing, consecration.

noun

(theology) The (usually gradual or uncompleted) process by which a Christian believer is made holy through the action of the Holy Spirit.

Example sentences

A christian is someone that believes in the teachings of Jesus Christ, namely salvation and sanctification.

That something different is needed to actually make people righteous (Christ, sanctification through grace, etc etc).

We are a civilization based on sanctified violence: nowadays that sanctification comes from the news media.

Over time, as they share Christ and His Word, more lives will transform as a side effect of the sanctification process.

I don't think the Puritan work ethic came out of debt; it came from the sanctification of work.

I'm probably a bit wrong, so I'd be grateful for any corrections: 1) Christians believe in progressive sanctification.

There are English terms like sanctification that you don't hear outside Christian circles.

We’re all steadily changed over time (sanctification) to be more like Him.

Probably the desire to murder and rape came before the sanctification.

Jobs is one of the hacker community's sacred cows, and we wouldn't accept this level of sanctification on any other topic.

I'm not sure how he will react, because there will not be instant sanctification.

Make a bot for anything or any game, scripting bots to do automated things that are annoying to do manually generally has a great sense of sanctification.

Quote examples

For example "sanctification" is taken directly from a Latin technical term that is translated that way because of how early Latin translators chose to translate the Greek.

As one raised in evangelical Christianity, I always see in The Velveteen Rabbit the theme of Love as a means of sanctification through devotion to the ideal, come hell or high water - becoming "Real".

However, from a Catholic religious perspective, crosses are all the more bearable as one learns to experience them as a means of personal sanctification (closer personal union with Christ crucified) and an opportunity to practice and grow in virtue – "dying to self" more and more so that joyful generosity truly becomes the rule of life.

And like other comments here grumble - this rationale is essentially a sanctification of the sentiment of "It builds and runs on my system and I can't be bothered to make fewer assumptions so that it runs on yours".