Eradication

"The use of this term (eradication) by the proponents of entire sanctification as a second definite work of divine grace is adequately defined and fully justified. At the same time, the false, illogical, and unscriptural criticism of the opponents of this experience, particularly as directed against the term eradication, is also met with effectiveness. With respect to competent authorship, the record of Dr. Stephen S. White speaks for itself. A graduate of Peniel College, Texas (now Bethany-Peniel College, Oklahoma), he received the Bachelor of Divinity degree from Drew Theological Seminary, the Master of Arts degree from Brown University, and the University of Chicago conferred on him the degree, Doctor of Philosophy. The honorary degree, Doctor of Divinity, was conferred on him by Olivet Nazarene College, Illinois. Ordained in 1914, Dr. White has served as pastor, educator, and Christian journalist in the Church of the Nazarene for more than thirty-five years. In 1945 he was elected professor of theology at Nazarene Theological Seminary, and in 1948 he became editor of the Herald of Holiness, official publication of the Church of the Nazarene."

"Finally, we would define depravity, or that which is eradicated by the baptism with the Holy Spirit unto sanctification, as an inherited, positive, psychical-ethical state, condition, principle, trait, quality, tendency, bent, aptitude, or attitude, of sin which affects the whole racial nature of the transcendental self and manifests itself through or in the empirical self. This is a description of the sin nature from the traditional standpoint. From the more modern or psychological viewpoint, we would follow Curtis somewhat and think of the eradication of all wrong motives in entire sanctification. This is brought about, not just by an orientation, but by a reorientation of the motive life. This change in the empirical self results from the destruction of the carnal mind, which lies back in the transcendental self. The cause of the complete change is God, or the supernatural; and the effect is produced instantaneously."

"Another writer of some years ago says of the state after entire sanctification: "But afterwards there are not only the Gibeonites, who must abide with us, hewers of wood and drawers of water, but there are cities and giants which must be totally exterminated." He even goes so far as to identify the giants with acquired depravity, which he claimed was not cleansed away either in regeneration or entire sanctification. For him, one type of acquired depravity is the memories connected with evil deed - to which we referred above - which remain after we are sanctified wholly. These giants, he claims, can be exterminated completely as we progress in the sanctified life; but the same cannot be said as to the Gibeonites, which represent our infirmities."
 

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