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I just defined faith for you.
Again, "A faith that is decribed as mentioned in Hebrews 11?
You know, a faith that is defined as both a belief and as an action?"
You didn't answer this.
Please answer if a faith is defined as it is in Hebrews 11 whereby it is defined as both a belief and as an action.
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The by product of faith is the action. The action does not define whether one is or has faith, that is God's call.That does not really answer the point I made in Scripture.
Again, "A faith that is decribed as mentioned in Hebrews 11?
You know, a faith that is defined as both a belief and as an action?"
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The by product of faith is the action. The action does not define whether one is or has faith, that is God's call.
Faith is neither belief nor an action. Faith receives, and Christian faith receives the Person and activity of Christ.
Games on. Been fun. Well, not really. Later, Sparky.
But you cannot define what true faith is or say who has faith that is accepted by God.Agreed. But works are always the by product of having a true faith. For James and Paul go together like two sides of the same coin, they don't conflict with each other; they compliment each other. Both teach us something vital. Paul looks at what goes on internally; James talks about the external results. Paul says, "We're saved by faith." James says, "This is what saving faith looks like."
In other words, works (all by their lonesome) is not what is saving you but it is the proof that Christ is living in you who does the actual saving. For he that has the Son has life and He that does not have the Son does not have life (1 John 5:12).
In addition, check out this short video, too.
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You could not be more wrong.But you cannot define what true faith is or say who has faith that is accepted by God.
Only God is the righteous judge.
The fruit of the spirit is what we are to look for in Christians.
Now, wouldn't you only need to worry about yourself and your faith and your actions?Agreed. But works are always the by product of having a true faith. For James and Paul go together like two sides of the same coin, they don't conflict with each other; they compliment each other. Both teach us something vital. Paul looks at what goes on internally; James talks about the external results. Paul says, "We're saved by faith." James says, "This is what saving faith looks like."
In other words, works (all by their lonesome) is not what is saving you but it is the proof that Christ is living in you who does the actual saving. For he that has the Son has life and He that does not have the Son does not have life (1 John 5:12).
In addition, check out this short video, too.
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Who are you offering correction to? A broad audience that you do not know personally on the internet?You could not be more wrong.
Please do a Google search on verses that say that God's people can correct others in the body of Christ.
I say this because that is not the topic of this thread.
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Now, wouldn't you only need to worry about yourself and your faith and your actions?
Why not tell people what the Bible says instead of adding your own spin. That would be much better Jason because when you start paraphrasing is when it goes awry.
Who are you offering correction to? A broad audience that you do not know personally on the internet?
What is your specific correction?
We are only to correct those we know to be in sin? Whose sin are you addressing, specifically?
Throwing around verses is not correction.
Which comes first? Faith or works?Faith without works is dead (James 2:17).
Matthew 5:44 says,
"But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;"
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*Your* enemies, not God's.
Which comes first? Faith or works?
What saves? Faith or works?
Paul says that if works could save then there would be boasting.
The Pharisee was boasting while the Publican was asking for mercy.
I am just relaying what the Bible says. There are many verses that say that you need evidence of your faith (if you are to live out your faith).
To deny this is to deny what the Bible plainly says.
Faith without works is dead (James 2:17).
Be in works they deny Him (Titus 1:16).
Prove that Christ is in you (2 Corinthians 13:5).
Jesus essentially says, He that does not what He says is like a man who built his house upon the sand whereby a storm came and blew it down (Whereby great was the fall of it) (Matthew 7:26-27).
Paul essentially says if any speaks contrary to the words of Jesus Christ and the doctrine of Godliness, he is proud and he knows nothing
(1 Timothy 6:3-4). Can a person who is proud and knows nothing be saved?
Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord (Hebrews 12:14).
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Wrong.What saves? Faith or Works
It is both. They are two sides of the same coin. For you cannot have one without the other.
Yes, a person who does not have the opportunity to live out their faith to show any works like the thief on the cross can be saved by faith.
But most people do have to live out their faith, and works is just the natural by product of having a true faith (that is lived out by a believer).
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In Romans 4, this is talking about the works of the law of Moses.
This is evident by the fact that Romans 3:1 says,
"What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision?"
Circumcision was a part of the Old Law.
This is the heresy Paul was addressing.
Paul was not talking about the good works that we were created in Christ Jesus to do, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them (See Ephesians 2:10
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