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AbstractHoliness is the exclusive and defining characteristic of God and distinguishes the divine from the profane and human. Its primary attributes are sinlessness, incorruptibility, and purity in the sense that light is free of darkness. It is one of the characteristics that cannot be transferred in its fullest sense to human beings because human beings are mired in space and time and Original Sin. In Isaiah the angels cry (addressing God) “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts … the whole earth is full of his glory.” Because holiness is built into the very nature and essence of divinity and is part of the divineding an sich(German: the essence of being) it is permanent and not affected by time and space. There is a secondary holiness that is associated with human spirituality and sanctification but it is always a journey, not a state of being. Holiness in the first sense cannot be directly transferred to holiness in the second sense. Significantly, the English word ‘holiness’ has no verb form.
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AbstractHoliness is the exclusive and defining characteristic of God and distinguishes the divine from the profane and human.
Its primary attributes are sinlessness, incorruptibility, and purity in the sense that light is free of darkness.
It is one of the characteristics that cannot be transferred in its fullest sense to human beings because human beings are mired in space and time and Original Sin.
In Isaiah the angels cry (addressing God) “Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of Hosts … the whole earth is full of his glory.
” Because holiness is built into the very nature and essence of divinity and is part of the divineding an sich(German: the essence of being) it is permanent and not affected by time and space.
There is a secondary holiness that is associated with human spirituality and sanctification but it is always a journey, not a state of being.
Holiness in the first sense cannot be directly transferred to holiness in the second sense.
Significantly, the English word ‘holiness’ has no verb form.
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