Help Explaining Justification

[PJY86]

As many know, a common disagreement between Catholics and Protestants is on the ideas of justification and sanctification. Most Protestants will say that Justification is an event in time which is then necessarily followed by Sanctification. This Sanctification, however, does not play a part in the event itself.
The Catholic view takes justification and sanctification to be practically synonymous and a process rather than an event. The two words are like two perspectives of the same process. For example, the words purity and abstinence are the state and process by which that state is maintained. Or temperance and sobriety; temperance being the process by which the state of sobriety is maintained.
Is this a proper way of understanding and explaining? Any suggestions would be heartily welcomed. Thanks for any replies.

 

[Trishie]

Justification and Sanctification
Biblical Definitions and Modern Misunderstandings

 

[Trishie]

Hi
Under the enquiry title Justification and Sanctification, on the net you’ll find a number of explanations, eg. lionelwindsor.net/bibleresources/topical/justification_sanctification

 

[Newbie2]

That’s a pretty good understanding, which also plays well with the Once saved, always saved theology.

As we know, Luther latched on to this “justification” concept, and focused entirely on it to the exclusion of other biblical concepts, something that the Catholic church has been careful not to do.

 

[theMutant]

Quite a while back, I had the opportunity to discuss Justification with a protestant on these forums. Here is a link to the thread if you would like to read through it.

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?p=60582#post60582

I got this link by searching through my past posts, so it will probably take you to my first post in this thread rather than the very beginning.

This thread was started by a Lutheran, so some time was spent examining what Luther taught about justification. Along with the other Catholics who posted things that might help you, I tried to do an in-depth analysis of Luther’s teachings in posts 20-22. I also tried to show the biblical basis for the Catholic view of justification in posts 90-95.