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No, and it would be a poor understanding of salvation in the New Testament. Justification plus sanctification = salvation. The kind of works I'm talking about, that James is talking about, that Jesus is talking about in the parable of the soils is also called the fruit of the Spirit. No that is not what I believe at all and neither does any Christian tradition I am aware of. Salvation is either permanent or it's not eternal life, no where in the New Testament is the promise of the gospel temporal life, it's always eternal life.I see, so you believe that faith alone is sufficient for salvation initially, but works are necessary for you to keep that salvation permanently? Is that a correct interpretation of your view?
We are justified by grace through faith, sanctified by grace through faith and equipped for service by grace through faith. Works and grace are not in conflict anywhere in the New Testament, works of the Law are another matter entirely.
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