"2 Corinthians 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved [not sinners], let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
We show forth some leading delusions of holiness skeptics.
Delusion 1. Sanctification at Death
It teaches sanctification at death. It simply assumes the thought and gives no “thus says the Lord” at all.
The whole thing of death sanctification is mere assumption and presumption.
Q: Why should one build up a system of belief without a word of Scripture to back it up?
Delusion 2. Making the Flesh the Root of Sin
It teaches that carnality is in the physical instead of the spiritual
being. The great deliverance is to come, according to the statement made, when the spiritual is separated from the carnal at death. Now, the only separation that takes place at death is between the body and the spirit. If, then, we are to be delivered from carnality only at death, we are shut up to the delusion that carnality is located in the physical, and not the spiritual being.
This doctrine was certainly obtained somewhere outside the Word of God, for there is no teaching in the Bible to substantiate such a notion.
Delusion 3. Imputed Holiness
Only It teaches an imputed holiness only; Christ’s robe of righteousness covering up our sins, and God accepting His perfection and paying no attention to our imperfections. We think the devil would not want anything better than to make one feel that he has a standing in Christ, and could now sin, and God would take no notice of it."
W.E. Shepard
