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Do we accept that our good Southern Baptist brethren are going to heaven without being sanctified? They preach against holiness doctrines and holiness people.

If you have a good SB friend how do you believe he/she is going to heaven?

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  1. Link Hudson says:

    Why would you think that someone is unsanctified because he is Southern Baptists. I’m sure you could find some drunk person on the side of the street who claims to be Southern Baptist. But when I was about 17, I also worked with a tile layer who claimed he wanted to be a Church of God preacher, but then came to work along with his out-of-state co-workers who’d been staying in a hotel, telling about picking up some woman in a bar and sleeping with her, giving a bunch of details. I asked him, “So you want to be a preacher? Don’t you see a problem with picking up a woman in a bar and sleeping with her?”

  2. Charles Page says:

    SB teach that all you need to go to heaven is to be born again. It is all a work of God’s grace. They do believe in a progressive sanctification which is inclusive with regeneration.

    I attended a large SB church for 10 years and I know they are not sanctified! by experience and years of listening to them.

  3. Link Hudson says:

    Without holiness no man shall see the Lord.

  4. Tim Hall says:

    This isn’t about COG

  5. Link Hudson says:

    No, I wouldn’t say that Baptist people who will receive a good resurrection are unsanctified. Can you show me a quote from a Baptist preacher that promotes not being sanctified?

  6. Charles Page says:

    What does a good sanctification have to do with a good resurrection?

    We are predestined to calling, justification and glorification but sanctification is not mentioned. Our sanctification is not predestined.

  7. Link Hudson says:

    Charles Page, I use language about the resurrection rather than ‘going to heaven’ to be consistent with the language of the Bible rather than cultural Christianity.

    The Bible says without holiness no man shall see the Lord.

  8. Charles Page says:

    The bodily resurrection takes place followed by judgement and then a grand entrance into heaven.

    Our seeing the Lord starts in this life. We have to be born again in order to see and enter the kingdom.

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