Perhaps you misunderstand salvation with sanctification? All that is needed for salvation (the assurance of your eternal soul having a place set with God forever) is to honestly know Jesus Christ is God in the flesh and when you know Him you know the Father. In conjunction with this you must know you cannot save yourself from fallen nature and thus fallen eternity, God Himself is the only cure! Sanctification is allowing your life to be transformed further into Gods 's image(Jesus). God breathed life into everyone of us and when we come back to Him(salvation), then together, while building a relationship, God's Holy Spirit is working with your heart and mind to think and act more aligned with God's ways (sanctification). To finish it off, when you die and meet the Father, He will complete the work you've both done together and that is what we call glorification.
Post script to avoid misunderstanding; I do not mean to suggest work gets you to heaven, it doesn't, faith in the diety and power of Christ, (His death and ressurection) to save gets you into heaven. The relational work with knowing God better is the logical next step when you love someone and are trying to understand their love for you and I hope everyone to have that with God.
I can tell you're a man of good will, so in short I'll just say that the doctrine of justification by faith, which long predates Protestantism, is like promising short cut on a long and grueling walk. But, people have been debating this for a long time, and nothing new is going to said here of all places.
Perhaps you misunderstand salvation with sanctification? All that is needed for salvation (the assurance of your eternal soul having a place set with God forever) is to honestly know Jesus Christ is God in the flesh and when you know Him you know the Father. In conjunction with this you must know you cannot save yourself from fallen nature and thus fallen eternity, God Himself is the only cure! Sanctification is allowing your life to be transformed further into Gods 's image(Jesus). God breathed life into everyone of us and when we come back to Him(salvation), then together, while building a relationship, God's Holy Spirit is working with your heart and mind to think and act more aligned with God's ways (sanctification). To finish it off, when you die and meet the Father, He will complete the work you've both done together and that is what we call glorification.
Post script to avoid misunderstanding; I do not mean to suggest work gets you to heaven, it doesn't, faith in the diety and power of Christ, (His death and ressurection) to save gets you into heaven. The relational work with knowing God better is the logical next step when you love someone and are trying to understand their love for you and I hope everyone to have that with God.
I can tell you're a man of good will, so in short I'll just say that the doctrine of justification by faith, which long predates Protestantism, is like promising short cut on a long and grueling walk. But, people have been debating this for a long time, and nothing new is going to said here of all places.