Cox Handout - Regeneration and Sanctification

Question 1

Define Regeneration.

Answer 1

The work of the Holy Spirit in creating new life in the sinful person who repents and comes to believe in Christ.

Question 2

Define Sanctification.

Answer 2

The divine act of making the believer actually holy, that is, bring the person’s moral condition into conformity with the legal status established in justification.

Question 3

Define the three types of Sanctification.

Answer 3

1) Initial Sanctification - Occurs at the Same Time As Regeneration (Setting Apart)
2) Progressive Sanctification - The Ongoing experience of the individual being continually transformed into he likeness of God.
3) Perfect/Complete Sanctification - The final act where the believer is made complete in holiness at the resurrection of the body and the effects of the fall on the Imago Dei will be fully reversed.

Question 4

Define a model of sanctification.

Answer 4

A pattern, paradigm, or framework that attempts to relate the various pieces of biblical data on the subject into a coherent, systematic, and comprehensive whole.

Question 5

What are two examples of models of sanctification?

Answer 5

1) Calvinist TULIP

2) Armenian DAISY

Question 6

What are the five important questions to ask about Sanctification?

Answer 6

1) What is the nature of sanctification in the salvation process?
2) What process is necessary for sanctification?
3) How much growth in sanctification can be expected in this life?
4) What is God’s role in sanctification?
5) What mechanisms or tools are necessary for sanctification?

Question 7

What is the reason we can be sanctified?

Answer 7

Our Union With Christ.

Question 8

What are two potential obstacles to sanctification?

Answer 8

1) Passivity

2) Attempts at Self-Reform