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What's the use of faith alone?
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Not sure what is the faith of The Son of God is. Do you mean you have faith in The Son of God.
But faith alone is when a person wants God's free gift of Eternal Life and to become a pernamnet born again child of God. The only object of their belief (to receive Eternal Life) is place only in Jesus and not other actions they may do. Like repentance of sin, confessing Jesus, being baptized, following Jesus, loving God, obeying the commandments, saying a prayer, etc......
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Indeed, “As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.” (James 2:26)
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True, James indicated Faith cannot be alone. But the Protestant formula "Faith Alone" always intended to have a context, and not be taken insensibly and without context.
In context, "Faith Alone" is speaking of the means of Justification. We have faith in Christ who alone did the work of our Justification.
Our own works did not justify us. Hence, "Faith Alone" is the basis of our Justification--not our own works of Self-Justification. It is our faith in Christ that enables our Justification because his works alone was able to justify us.
There are works we do that contribute to our being justified, but these works are not the basis of our Justification. One of our "works" is to simply believe that Christ is our means of Justification.
Another "work" that we do, in our approach to "being justified," is repenting. We repent in order to give Christ the place in our life where otherwise there is only independent initiative.
So, we must believe in Christ and we must repent, making him the primary inspiration in our life. These works do not justify us but they approach Christ who alone did the work of justifying us.
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