@curiousdannii About NPP, reading the articles I referred in my recent question and skimming the 2nd half (the application) of Dr. Matthew Halsted book Paul and the Meaning of Scripture: A Philosophical-Hermeneutic Approach to Paul’s Use of the Old Testament in Romans helps me a lot to get the gist of NPP both from Paul's exegetical method as well as very early Patristic reception.

(By the way, that book is currently only USD $7.41, 80% off, so I bought it right away since the early chapters contain good summaries of these key thinkers in hermeneutics: Schleiermacher, Gadamer, Dilthey, and Heidegger, and then apply them to Paul)

@DoesElishaspeak? I think we could start a prayer chain meta post. Sounds like a meta sort of thing to do, certainly wouldn't hurt and not against any rules that I'm aware of.

Tim Arrington also wrote an interesting article about Jesus's millennial rule (The Utopian Trifecta) in which he speculates that that would be the time where our sanctification would be completed.

In my mind this corresponds to the "logic of purgatory" (borrowing from the title of a book), that we freely want to be cleansed from our tendency to sin (empowered by grace) until we can freely WILL only what is right and good all the time, rather than God zapping us into perfection. This is also consistent with C.S. Lewis's desire to be cleansed before entering heaven.

@curiousdannii Have you heard any theologians see how sanctification continues during the millennial rule?

@GratefulDisciple I don't really know too many pre-millenialists (despite mostly being one myself), but I don't see why it would really be too different from now?

@curiousdannii Tim Arrington is Protestant, so in order to maintain the logic of purgatory, this can be the Protestant version of the Catholic one :-). And similar to the Catholic version, yes, this is in continuity with our responsibility to start purging ourselves of our old sinful habit since our old selves have been crucified with Christ (Rom 6).

BTW I think Tim Arrington in his 3 part NPP articles summarizes quite well what my current soteriological stance is. With that, I would not be concentrating too much on theology anymore but more on confronting my own sin tendencies and purging them.

@GratefulDisciple I don't think sanctification being complete during the millennial rule makes sense theologically. And I doubt it's a common position.

@GratefulDisciple Wow, we have basically opposite views of the millennium. In fact, considering he seems to say the length of time doesn't matter, that sounds much more like post-millenialism.

Rather than a utopia, I think the millennium will be one of humanity's darkest times, as the true rottenness of our sin is revealed, without the excuse of a corrupting Satan or being able to claim ignorance of Jesus.

And I don't think resurrection happens until after the millennium, making his idea of post-resurrection sanctification moot.

The hope of the Gospel would almost evaporate if we had to live with indwelling sin after the resurrection! What a horrible idea! A true dystopia, worse than any young adult fiction! ;)

@grate I was just kidding about that covid warning, although I wouldn't be surprised if a site like stackexchange starts to tag posts with certain keywords. I wouldn't ask anyone to change any metaphors they found useful to fit or unfit a narrative. Not even entirely sure why this post popped up on the homepage today.

@PeterTurner That's okay, it's not essential anyway and better this way to be more focused. I think the Q was bumped because all answer(s) have 0 vote, just like the Luther Bible Q which has been bumped several times in the past year.