Search results

  1. sculleywr

    Is Final Salvation Free or Contingent upon Obeying Commandments?

    Romans 2, James 2, Luke 10, Matthew 25, and many more passages make it very clear. We must be obedient to God's commands in order to receive eternal life. The causal link is very clear: Romans 2 tells us that in the judgment, God will render unto each person according to their works. To those...
  2. sculleywr

    Earning favor

    However, it is a passing similarity and not a statement based on concrete evidence. So passing it off as proof is like saying that I am as evil as Hitler because I happen to be male. There isn't anything concrete and there isn't any way in this universe in which James's epistle is relevant to...
  3. sculleywr

    Earning favor

    As I have said multiple times before, James is not mentioned in any of the passages surrounding the one in question. Additionally, from what we know in the surrounding context, James was not quick to accept his brother as Lord. The only James who we know was among the disciples was the son of...
  4. sculleywr

    Earning favor

    jmjk ghbiogbhjbnvfn gkjhnofigh I am officially done with you. You're fishing to make up contradictions where there are none. I would learn more about God by bashing my head into a brick wall than by going in the circles you are running around in. When you're actually ready to discuss in a...
  5. sculleywr

    Earning favor

    No. I said he addressed them by their belief, not by their name. James addressed the Gnostics by their belief, and not by their name. It is YOU who says James addressed the Judaizers, and YOU have given no proof save you own opinion. We know the beliefs of the Judaizers. We know they religiously...
  6. sculleywr

    Earning favor

    Also, since when was Galatians found in Matthew 23. Just because James is the Lord's brother does not mean he was present for the sermon in Matthew 23. So I repeat, making it bigger and I will keep repeating until you answer the question: Where in Matthew 23, and not in Galatians, James, John...
  7. sculleywr

    Earning favor

    No point in Scripture mentions Judaizers. It is speculation and nothing more because it's never used the name.
  8. sculleywr

    Earning favor

    Statement without evidence presented. Show where in the passage of Matthew 23 James is said to have been there. Go ahead. Look. The beliefs of Gnostics are. And Paul does not name the Judaizers. You will not find the word "Judaizer" in Scripture. We know he was talking about Judaizers purely...
  9. sculleywr

    Earning favor

    Let me make it big for you because you failed to read it: James was not present to hear the sermon Christ preached in Matthew 23!!!!! He didn't read it and there is no reason to simply ASSUME he actually heard the sermon. Now. were you able to read that this time? You obviously didn't read my...
  10. sculleywr

    Earning favor

    It doesn't say Judaizer anywhere in that passage. And while Paul and James certainly are in agreement, you are in agreement with NEITHER. Paul said we are judged according to our ACTIONS in Romans 2. That is not talking about pre-Christ. That is saying ALL men, to the Jew first, and also to the...
  11. sculleywr

    Ways Salvation-by-Works Christians Misconstrue Scripture

    By "the Reformer", I mean Calvin, Luther, Zwingli, Arminius, etc. I mean all of the people who were leaders during the period known as the Classical or Magisterial Reformation. I'm not talking strictly about the modern denomination which calls itself "Reformed". And you're defending a belief...
  12. sculleywr

    Earning favor

    That's irrelevant. Just because James was the brother of Christ does not mean that he was present for that passage. He isn't named in the passage so there isn't any reason to simply assume James was there. We know that James, the brother of JOHN was there, the sons of thunder as Christ...
  13. sculleywr

    Earning favor

    Matthew 23 hadn't been WRITTEN when James was writing. It is not speculative to say that James was responding to something that his text actually addresses. It is farcical to even think that he was writing against Judaizers. Sola Fide was first preached in the Reformation. Not a single Christian...
  14. sculleywr

    Ways Salvation-by-Works Christians Misconstrue Scripture

    I put on here earlier that we can do all things through Christ Who gives us strength. Saying that we can achieve justification through works of righteousness done through Christ Jesus was likened to achieving Superman's ability to fly. That is what holiness is. If a person says that being truly...
  15. sculleywr

    Ways Salvation-by-Works Christians Misconstrue Scripture

    Meriting legal forgiveness is not justification. Justification does not just LABEL a person as righteous. Justification transforms a person, making that person BECOME righteous. Imputation is incorrect because it only gives a person the label of righteousness. If we imagine justification as...
  16. sculleywr

    Ways Salvation-by-Works Christians Misconstrue Scripture

    It's not a misrepresentation just because you want it to be. If people who are degenerate cannot choose good, then the ENTIRE reason that they sin is because God made them sin. The only way in which a person is fully LOGICALLY responsible for something he does is if it was within his power to...
  17. sculleywr

    Ways Salvation-by-Works Christians Misconstrue Scripture

    Ohhhh....So it's your BODY that sins. Your mind is just trapped inside this body that it can't control. Brock Turner didn't rape that woman behind a dumpster. His BODY is responsible for that! Hitler didn't kill millions of Jews. It was just his body that led the Nazi regime while his mind and...
  18. sculleywr

    Ways Salvation-by-Works Christians Misconstrue Scripture

    They seem to not really believe that we can do all things through Christ, Who gives us strength. Apparently holiness is something that they don't strive for because it's impossible, so why even try? I can't see how I would want to follow a God that says "I won't help you in your life to overcome...
  19. sculleywr

    Ways Salvation-by-Works Christians Misconstrue Scripture

    Christ and His merits make the debt of sin go away. Justification and forgiveness of sins are not the same thing. Justification can't be merited even if you have infinity to the power of infinity.
  20. sculleywr

    Ways Salvation-by-Works Christians Misconstrue Scripture

    Righteousness apart from the LAW, not apart from WORKS. Tell me, is salvation going to heaven? Is it just about a wonderful condo near the pearly gates? Cause for me, salvation is getting to know the God I love with an intimate and complete knowledge like a man knows his wife and children.