Luther’s teaching: sanctification is
separated from justification; in his
Augsburg
Confession the Holy
Spirit is not specified a role in
justification, only sanctification.
Biblical argument:
1
Corinthians 6:11 That
is what some of you used to be; but now
you have had yourselves washed, you
were sanctified, you were
justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ
and in the Spirit of
our God.
Church’s teaching: the Church has
consistently understood and taught that
justification and sanctification are a single reality by
which the
sinner is at once made righteous and in that
righteousness
receives sanctifying grace the holy of the divine life
itself.
Council of Trent’s teaching:
Chapter
Seven This
disposition, or preparation,
is followed by Justification itself, which is not
remission of sins
merely, but also the sanctification and renewal of the
inward man,
through the voluntary reception of the grace, and of the
gifts,
whereby man of unjust becomes just, and of an enemy a
friend,
that so he may be an heir according to hope of life
everlasting.