A.W. Tozer writes this powerful statement about God’s holiness and the fact that He requires His children to be holy as well (1 Peter 1:15-16). This no doubt is a great statement about holiness and the Arminian cry for righteousness through Jesus Christ both imparted to us by faith and lived out through faith.
God is holy with an absolute holiness that knows no degrees, and this He cannot impart to His creatures. But there is a relative and contingent holiness which He shares with angels and seraphim in heaven and with redeemed men on earth as their preparation for heaven. This holiness God can and does impart to His children. He shares it with them by imputation and by impartation, and because He has made it available to them through the blood of the Lamb, He requires it of them.
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