Decoding Protestant/Calvinist Brainwashing
This chart needs a lot of work, but in regard to Christian living versus salvation, the cause for confusion in our day follows: Protestantism and Calvinism in particular fuse the different applications of single words together to mean one thing…for the most part…justification. Take the word, “repentance,” it has a different meaning and application for the Christian versus the unbeliever. This chart is meant to get the ball rolling in the direction of teaching people to interpret the Bible according to the sanctification/justification dichotomy. Protestantism and Calvinism make sanctification and justification the same thing, and make under law/under grace the same thing, and call for an interpretation of Scripture in this way which makes their false gospel feasible. Again, this chart merely gets the ball rolling; I trust that your own independent study can improve upon it greatly.
Paul's Passing Thoughts 
So this is your view of what the diff between sanctification and justification is? or your view of what “protestants” and “Calvinists” teach? Its not clear to me.
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The point is context. In Protestantism, the only interpretive context is justification. Hence, the word “salvation” always pertains to justification. “Law” always pertains to a perfect standard (justification). “Judgement” always refers to “final justification,” etc. That’s how Gnostic heretics like Paul David Tripp make “obedience” something manifested by the Spirit instead of performed by us (see HPC 2006 pg. 215; he clearly states that we only experience works already accomplished by Christ). That’s why, in essence, like all Gnostics of the Protestant variety, he holds to the idea that a literal/grammatical interpretation of Scripture rejects the personhood of Christ and his salvific works. In a grammatical sense, he asserts, the Bible does indeed tell us to learn Scripture and obey it, but that “approach” rejects the saving works of Christ. See pg. 27 of HPC 2006. He even applies that principle to the relatively passive practice of changing one’s thinking.
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OK. Its a very common calvinist and protestant practice to go into great detail about the differences between justiofication and sanctification though. One work is “Fisher’s Catechism” (an explanation of the presbyterian catechism, which you can find here, and which seems to make the kind of distinctions you think are important (and maybe Tripp obscures)
http://www.reformed.org/master/index.html?mainframe=/documents/fisher/q0035.html
examples
“Q. 17. How do [justifcation and sanctifcation] differ as to their ingredients?
A. The main ingredient in justification is the grace and love of God towards us, manifested in pardoning and accepting us in Christ; whereas the main ingredient in sanctification is our gratitude and love to God, flowing from his love to us, and appearing in our obedience and keeping his commandments, by virtue of his “Spirit put within us, and causing us to walk in his statutes,” Ezek. 36:27.”
“Q. 19. How do they differ in their relation to the law?
A. Justification has relation to the law, as a covenant, and frees the soul from it, Rom. 7:4; sanctification respects the law as a rule, and makes the soul breathe after conformity to it, and to delight in it after the inward man, Rom. 7:22; hence justification is a judicial sentence, absolving us from law-debt; sanctification, a spiritual change, fitting us for law-duty.”
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Sigh. I am so weary of unraveling this doublespeak orthodoxy. This states the following in a nuanced form: Christ died for our positional justification, and lived a perfect life to fulfill the law for our sanctification. So, by living the same way we were saved, by faith alone in all of the “saving works of Christ seen in the Bible,” viz, John Piper et al, the perfect obedience of Christ is imputed to our life in order to keep us justified. We merely experience “new obedience.” Luther said it is experienced subjectively and what God decides to manifest in our lives is really none of our business–just proclaim the gospel. Why is this clearly a false gospel? Among many, many reasons, it doesn’t END the law. A perfect keeping of the law remains the standard for justification in sanctification. The law of sin and death continues to be a standard for our justification while making the fulfillment of the law of liberty something Jesus does and not us. It circumvents our ability to love Christ and others and makes it the duty of Christ and not us. Instead of our sin being cast away along with the old covenant law, and living under the law of the Spirit of life, the law of sin and death remains. The Christian remains “under law”–the very definition of a lost person. Clearly, and in no uncertain terms, Calvin taught that sins committed by the Christian are against justification, and membership in the institutional church guarantees perpetual reapplication of Christ’s death to new sins we commit. This is why we must, “preach the gospel to ourselves every day.” This is why we must “live by the gospel.” Sigh, ok, I will point out one nuance from this hideous doublespeak:
“whereas the main ingredient in sanctification is our gratitude and love to God, flowing from his love to us, and appearing in our obedience and keeping his commandments,”
Notice that even the “gratitude” we have FLOWS FROM God to us via the Spirit. Notice that the gratitude for the cross is what completely drives sanctification, and even that gratitude is a perpetual gift. This construct is necessary because Protestantism keeps the Christian under the law of sin and death and its demand for perfection. The new birth is nothing more than a manifestation of Christ’s obedience that we only experience. the Christian, as these guys continually state again and again, remains “dead,” “totally depraved,” “enemies of God,” and “haters of God.”
Duggie, come out from among them and be separate. Start your own home fellowship with like-minded believers. Flee the wrath that is coming to these people.
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