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Believing God Exists =/= Following His Word (media.scored.co)
posted 9 months ago by linden687 on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +22Score on mirror )
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multiformat on scored.co
9 months ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror ) 1 child
If you believe James 2 is about refuting salvation by faith then here is this passage from James 2:10:

> For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

Good luck being literally perfect.
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fourleaved on scored.co
9 months ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror ) 1 child
And the scripture was fulfilled, saying: Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him to justice, and he was called the friend of God.

Do you see that by works a man is justified; and not by faith only?

And in like manner also Rahab the harlot, was not she justified by works, receiving the messengers, and sending them out another way?

For even as the body without the spirit is dead; so also faith without works is dead.
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multiformat on scored.co
9 months ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
>What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

Romans 4:1-5

James 2 is not about salvation. It's about your faith in the eyes of men, not God. Having faith and no works is good enough for salvation (as Romans shows) but having faith and no works is not useful to help your fellow men (as James shows). If you think James is about salvation, then James 2:10 clearly states that you have to be literally perfect.
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fourleaved on scored.co
9 months ago 0 points (+0 / -0 ) 1 child
We aren't justified by works of the law. But we are justified by grace through faith working in love. Not grace alone, not faith alone, not works alone...

Grace

Faith

Working

Love
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multiformat on scored.co
9 months ago 0 points (+0 / -0 )
>Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

If your works have anything to do with being saved, then it's not grace (which is a free and undeserved gift), it's God paying you for your work.

>But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

It says right here it's faith alone. "Worketh not" meaning you have no good deeds, just faith in Christ's sacrifice to save you.

And to further prove that works and faith are mutually exclusive, there's also Romans 11:6...

>And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
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