"There is no middle ground. If you aren't acting on what you believe, you don't truly believe it."
Loved that thought I would share.
Loved that thought I would share.
There is one verse containing the words faith alone. It is not an exact phrase match:Jam 2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
2:21 Apart from its context, this verse might seem to contradict the Biblical teaching that people are saved by faith and not by good deeds (Ro 3:28; Gal 2:15-16). But James means only that righteous action is evidence of genuine faith--not that it saves, for the verse (Ge 15:6) that he cites (v. 23) to substantiate his point says, "Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it [i.e., faith, not works] to him as righteousness." Furthermore, Abraham's act of faith recorded in Ge 15:6 occurred before he offered up Isaac, which was only a proof of the genuineness of his faith. As Paul wrote, "The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love" (Gal 5:6). Faith that saves produces deeds.