Fundamentalist and the Holiness of God

One of the warnings which must be sounded concerns the extremes to which some theological systems have taken the teaching of sanctification. Each World Congress of Fundamentalists has included resolutions against the errors of hyper-Calvanism, hyper-Armenianism, and other hyper-systems. These resolutions are a safekeeping for many doctrines, providing a balance against such extremes. These extremes include antinomianism at one end of the pendulum and legalism at the other end. We must guard against such extremes which produce errors stating that God is the author of sin, condoing sin in our lives, as well as claims toward human, sinless perfection. Somewhere in all of this cautiousness lies the distinctive principle that should be the basis of the interpretation of sanctification in the life of a Christian governed by the grace of God. Sin is always possible; but sin is never a necessity. All of our individual distinctives must fall within these boudnaries, or else we shall defeat the hope of a holy life at all in Christ Jesus.Spence, O. Talmadge is the author of 'Fundamentalist and the Holiness of God', published 2003 under ISBN 9781882542383 and ISBN 188254238X.