Let me be clearer. There’s nothing you posted that said Abraham was justified by anything other than faith. Whereas what I posted said exactly that. Did he obey out of faith? Yes. But it’s not what justified him, according to scripture.
According to scripture the obedience of faith is the only kind of faith that justifies.
If Abraham refuses to be bey God and get out of his country, but rather just stays, he will not be justified.
Only obedience to God justifies.
Please stop ignoring the plain scriptures I’m quoting, and the truth they so plainly teach us.
He was justified by the obedience of faith just like we are today.
The “work” that James refers to is the obedience of faith.
Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? James 2:21-22
Abraham our father
justified by works when he offered Isaac
Not good works
Not the works of the law
Not works that earn a wage
The corresponding action or work of obedience; the obedience of faith.
Faith without the corresponding action of obedience is dead and can not save.
It’s incomplete.
Abraham was justified when he obeyed and got out of his country and departed for the land God would shown him.
This typifies how God would justify the Gentiles by faith.
And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel to Abraham beforehand, saying, “In you all the nations shall be blessed.” Galatians 3:8
Abraham repented.
That is, he turned to God, by turning away from his old life to follow the Lord.
He lived a life of obedience to the Lord, and God blesses him.
He live a life of faith.
And I will make your descendants multiply as the stars of heaven; I will give to your descendants all these lands; and in your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed;
because Abraham obeyed My voice and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws. Genesis 26:4-5
Very simple.
JLB