Amen! It is through faith "in Christ alone" (and not by the merits of our works) that we are justified on account of Christ (Romans 3:24; 5:1; 5:9); yet the faith that justifies is never alone (solitary, unfruitful, barren) of works if it is genuine (James 2:14-24). *Perfect Harmony*Faith alone justifies, but real faith is never alone, it is accompanied by good works.
Faith alone justifies, but real faith is never alone, it is accompanied by good works.
What?
It is written behold the lamb of God that takes way the sins of the world. Thats done.. but just like parent.. my kids.. are mine.. always will be.. but they can still hurt me.. we live in the flesh.. we still can sin.. miss it.. and ANYONE if you sin.. the price the wages of sin is death.. in this world.. always repent
Amen! It is through faith "in Christ alone" (and not by the merits of our works) that we are justified on account of Christ (Romans 3:24; 5:1; 5:9); yet the faith that justifies is never alone (solitary, unfruitful, barren) of works if it is genuine (James 2:14-24). *Perfect Harmony*
Why not just say rejection of the will of man for the will of God? Is there a need to seek gain at the expense of others, or worse yet support those who do?Which is actually saying the same thing as justification requires Faith AND works.
Every word must be isolated to its context. Faith and Repent are sometimes used as synonyms. Sometimes "repent" has nothing to do with salvation, but for the saved person to get back into fellowship. You will not find the word repent in John's Gospel or Galatians. If we become wooden literal, and not "Normal Literal" keeping the words in the context of the author to its historical audience, then we can get things rather messed up and confused.Hi to all and Peter says in Acts 2:38 that you have to repent !!
Is that for all that are saved TODAY ??
dan p
So you see no need to reject the self serving ways of mankind which are adversarial to the governance of God, having found a way to serve both the governance of man and the governance of God?The entire book of John and Galatians never use the word repent, but in some cases repent simply means what faith means unto salvation. In other cases, it is to come back into fellowship, having quenched the Spirit of God within us.
The problem with this argument is that it is circular. If you understand what is sentence logic, if I were to say, If P implies Q, it also means not Q implies not P.
So if P is Faith that justifies, and Q is works, the moment you say Faith that justifies implies you can see works, its the same as saying that if you don't see any works, that means your faith did not justify you.
Which is actually saying the same thing as justification requires Faith AND works.
Isn't faith itself a work? Hmmmmm….
John 6:28-29 NKJV Then they said to Him, "What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?" (29) Jesus answered and said to them, "This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent."
Also consider the hall of faith, Hebrews 11. Did not each of these heroes of the faith demonstrate the genuineness of their faith thru what they did?
I suppose you are not of mid acts dispensation?
Meaning His Gospel of the Kingdom and His commandments
No, I am still working out where I stand, but I lean towards the Acts 2 view.
The predominantly gentile church dropped the Kingdom in favour of a return to the world of man when it joined Rome as a power in it's own right over the people and eventually over nations until the purpose of the gentiles was fulfilled. It rejected the governance of the Father to align itself with the governance of man and form it's own kingdom. Typical of man..so when do you think the gospel of the Kingdom was set aside (until the fulness of the gentiles are brought in)?
Then Jesus wasted His breath giving us the Gospel of the Kingdom and His two commandments. It like the serpent asking Eve 'surely he didn't mean that'. Jesus didn't mean what he said about repenting of what got man kicked out of the Garden in the first place... our self serving ways and our self determination of what is good and evil? Do we think we can have it both ways?We simply believe the message, that Jesus Christ has started and completed the work required for our salvation and we cease from our work and believe it.
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