Intro

This blog gains its name from the book Steele's Answers published in 1912. It began as an effort to blog through that book, posting each of the Questions and Answers in the book in the order in which they appeared. I started this on Dec. 10, 2011. I completed blogging from that book on July 11, 2015. Along the way, I began to also post snippets from Dr. Steele's other writings — and from some other holiness writers of his times. Just lately, I have been rewriting and updating some of his essays for this blog.
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Friday, August 14, 2026

Objections to Entire Sanctification Answered (Rewritten)

My dear fellow believer in Christ: 

You have sincere objections to entire sanctification as a distinct blessing. Let me try to help remove them. 

Maybe you have been troubled by the obvious imperfections of some people who claim to be walking this higher path of Christian life. First, remember that people who have not repented use that very same argument against every effort we make to lead them to Christ. You regularly tell them that Christianity can be counterfeited by hypocritical professors; that all valuable things are exposed to cheap imitations; and that the most valuable things are the most likely to be imitated. Please apply that same reasoning to yourself when you think about the higher Christian life.