Faith vs Love

Galatians 5:6
The reason many think they have faith, but aren't loving, is because they are depending on mental agreement with theological concepts... but that's not really saving faith. Demons also have that kind of faith. James 2:19
True saving faith changes a person all the way through. 2 Corinthians 5:17

mathinspiration said:

Which is more important than faith or love?

Faith will saved you in God or love?

This is reason why a lot of religious fanatics have a lot of faith to die in what they believe but they don't love.

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Faith in God, which God. Having faith in islam's Allah won't save you, nor will faith in buddha.

The only faith that saves is faith in Jesus, but how do we show that we have faith in jesus, by the way that we love others.

I believe Christian faith is about love in Christ. (John 3:16-18, Matthew 22:38-40) What he taught was the purpose of it all was to love God and people. (John 10:26-27) Regardless of appearances on the outside and what is they have done. (Luke 10:39-32) To give the benefit of the doubt and willing to forgive; a chance to reveal what's inside and to change it. (Luke 23:38-43)

It's only possible to have this faith with love in us. Also love requires we understand people's flaws and sufferings to have compassion. (Luke 23:20, Luke 23:39-40) Then do what you can to convince others and people themselves to have and accept it. Part of it is being merciful but letting them know clearly something is wrong; nothing personal, just honest. (John 8:3-7, John 8:10-11) If they don't want your help or not willing to accept it, nothing you can do and the consequences are on them. (John 3:18-21)

Both faith and love come from within as one in the same. Least it is if we're in Christ as the body, him being the head. We're to be lead by and follow him by humbling ourselves and patiently waiting for him as he's there for us. (Matthew 18:4-5, Matthew 18:8-10) If we're there for him as the Bride of Christ, we do the same for each other as we're members of the Church being brothers and sisters. (Romans 12:10-12)

mathinspiration said:

Which is more important than faith or love?

Faith will saved you in God or love?

This is reason why a lot of religious fanatics have a lot of faith to die in what they believe but they don't love.

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Faith is a gift from God that comes from outside of ourselves, as the Apostle St. Paul writes in Ephesians 2:8-9 that we are saved by grace alone through faith, and this is not of ourselves, it is the gift of God, not by works so that no one can boast. Which is why our justification is by grace alone through faith, not by our own efforts.

When the Apostle, in 1 Corinthians 13, says "If I have faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I have nothing" He is not talking about our salvation or our justification, but rather He is talking about the life we have in Christ by the Spirit (the entire context of chapters 12, 13, and 14 are about us together living in the Spirit as the Church). Simply having a "great faith" but lacking in love, the Apostle says, is meaningless. We shouldn't think of him talking about saving faith here, but the strength of faith. Love is the supreme expression of Christian life. The three greatest virtues are faith, hope, and love, but even of these the greatest is love. Love is how our lives are to be shaped in faith with hope.

This is a distinction, that in Lutherans terms, that would be described as Coram Deo and Coram Hominibus, or "us before God" and "us before men". 1 Corinthians 13 is Coram Hominibus, us before our fellow man, how we are to engage and be toward others, think of it as our horizontal life--the calling to love our neighbor, to feed the hungry, etc.

Justification, salvation, i.e. what the Apostle is talking about in Ephesians 2 is Coram Deo, our place before God. Think of it as vertical, and here it is not about Law, but Gospel, not what we do or have done, but what God does and has done for us in Jesus.

-CryptoLutheran

I'm going to go with the classic Protestant answer. We're justified purely because we're Christ's. But that shows in love for God and neighbor, and God expects that from us.