RE: Scriptural support for Entire Sanctification

Ken I agree that most (all?) entire sanctification passages can deconstruct when using the modern approach to Scripture so popular in seminary (and undergrad too)... but what else deconstructs when using these tools--how about “experiential-born-again-hour-of-decision-conversion?” What else goes out with the modern approach? I wonder if boomer-scholars gleefully tossed entire sanctification overboard "because I can't prove it from Scripture" but did not realize that the same method they were using to deconstruct entire sanctification would eventually deconstruct a host of other ideas they wanted to retain. Their hermeneutic eventually reached around to bit them in the rear.

I don’t consider the “not-in-Scripture” reason seriously. Why? Because I do not see the same crowd seriously considering plenty of other things in Scripture that are explicit. I’ve asked this: if entire sanctification were more explicit in scripture would they believe it? My answer is no. If someone from the dead came back to tell them it was true they would not believe it. As always, when the church decides to believe or disbelieve a thing (by other means) the Bible is used as a tool to prove it—it seldom happens the other way around. The sooner we’re honest about how we Christians use the Bible the better.