(November 7, 2015 at 9:57 am)jenny1972 Wrote: God sanctifies (sets apart as holy) those who respond to his truth (John 17:17) in obedience to the gospel. One is sanctified when he is cleansed, which occurs when his faith leads him to demonstrate the death and resurrection of Christ in the washing of water (i.e., burial in water — Romans 6:3-4; Colossians 2:12) by means of the instruction of “the word” (Ephesians 5:26; 1 Corinthians 6:11). The “water” is an allusion to baptism, as virtually all scholars concede.
so then if the gay couple are baptised and married their marriage is a sanctified marriage according to the bible
or should we go to the classical greek interpretation of the word? Basically, to be “sanctified,” carries the idea of “having been separated from (something), set apart.” In classical Greek the concept was that of something “sacred” that is not accessible to the general public.
Herodotus wrote concerning a “sacred grove of plane-trees” where a certain deity was worshipped only by the Carians (5.119), i.e., it was a segregated, separated area.
How can you speak of dishonesty when your still cutting up verses and misrepresenting them?
