Is it faith, works, or both?

[stan1953]

The use of the word "conundrum" here was stated as a sarcasm.

When one is not able to add those works of Jesus unto their faith, and think that their own works are what James talked about, then they missed the whole point of perfecting holiness and being conformed unto the image of His Son.

- It's not our faith, it is His faith given to us.
- It's not our works that we perform, it is His works performed by GOD through us.

Faith and works are intertwined in the Christian life, or else it is a dying or dead faith.

Sorry I thought you saw a real conundrum.

OK well James is using Abraham as an example of how our faith HAS to be accompanied by works. His example was that Abraham didn't JUST believe what God told him, but he put feet to his faith and obeyed God when it came to sacrificing his son. James 2:22 says, You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. The focus in James 2 is that we are to use our faith to produce works to confirm our belief in God's Word.

I still don't see any contradictions between the verse in the OP.

 

[someguy14]

No, I'm not asking you to trust me - I'm asking you to trust the words of YHWH as given through Isaiah, whom Messiah endorsed as an authentic prophet of YHWH:

God bless our friend Isaiah.

 

[ananda]

God bless our friend Isaiah.

Amein.