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Disciple of Jesus
...I have no counter argument to that. I do not believe that a person who does no works at all will be saved. Because our works show our faith and a faith without works is a dead faith. Yet Paul says the opposite?....
I think it all depends on what saved means. I have understood saved means that person is saved from the judgment that would come because of sin. Jesus offered forgiveness freely and so there is no works required for to be saved. However, it is not all and it doesn’t directly mean that person also gets eternal life. Jesus told eternal life is for righteous.
These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.
Mat. 25:46
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:23
So, after one is saved from judgment, he should become righteous, so that he would not continue in sin anymore. If person becomes righteous, it will be seen also in his actions. Righteous person does righteous things. And reason for right acts is that person has right understanding, he knows what is good and right and wants to freely to do it, not because tries to gain salvation, but because it is good.
He who does righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. He who sins is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. To this end the Son of God was revealed, that he might destroy the works of the devil. Whoever is born of God doesn't commit sin, because his seed remains in him; and he can't sin, because he is born of God. In this the children of God are revealed, and the children of the devil. Whoever doesn't do righteousness is not of God, neither is he who doesn't love his brother.
1 John 3:7-10
Paul and Jesus both are correct, if understood correctly. It is true that there is no works that would give eternal life or forgiveness. But still, not all will get eternal life. Eternal life is for righteous and if person is righteous, he does righteous things.
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