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Cutting to the chase is understanding the context, of the letter that James wrote.Let's cut to the chase. Do you believe that a believer can die in one or two unrepentant sins (like lying, lusting after a woman, or hating) and still be saved?
The first point is I am not the judge.Let's cut to the chase. Do you believe that a believer can die in one or two unrepentant sins (like lying, lusting after a woman, or hating) and still be saved?
Cutting to the chase is understanding the context, of the letter that James wrote.
I asked you whether you ignore someone in need in your church. That is what James is asking.
James 2
If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that?
Can that faith save that person?
You said:Regarding the next question you asked.
The first point is I am not the judge.
The second point, if salvation reduces to how well behaved we can be, then God help us all. You don't honestly believe that your salvation directly hinges, on the condition of your heart at the moment of death?
You said:Your salvation all reduces to those final seconds before death, did I repent of every single sin?
Salvation is by GRACE through faith...
Not salvation is by a perfect repentance.
Of course you do. But how do you not see that as turning God's grace into a license for immorality as told to us in Jude 1:4? How is that warning any different than from what you just acknowledge to me here?
You do realize God is good, right?
If so, what makes you think He would condone a believer's sin or evil?
I desire a license to sin like I desire a license to give myself a drano enema....sin hurts ME,it hurts others , it makes God chastise me.How do you guys not get that.
You said:Sinning or not sinning is not the issue when it comes to salvation.Faith in Christ alone.He wants all the Glory. He alone deserves the Glory.Take some of if you want.You think you are entitled to just a little bit of it . Let’s see how that plays.
God hates a Believers sins and evil——He took out His hate on an innocent One that we might be forgiven....Jesus took what we deserve so that we could receive what He deserves.You want to talk about a “good” God? Show me a better deal than that!
James is talking about a faith without works.Yes, James makes a point that if we have respect of persons in giving favor to the rich believers over poor believers, we have broken all of God's laws. Loving the poor is the same thing as taught in Matthew 25:31-46. If a believer does not help the poor within this life, they will be cast into everlasting fire. So I fail to see how this supports your belief in any way.
Yes. God is the giver and taker of life. Nothing happens by accident. It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.
So I would take that as a "yes" to my question. If such is the case, then wouldn't God have to agree with our sin in order to save us?
James is talking about a faith without works.
James is talking about disregarding the needy in your church.
Can that kind of faith save you?
You need to ask yourself what is saving faith?
Because that is what James is talking about!
James is talking about a faith without works.
James is talking about disregarding the needy in your church.
Can that kind of faith save you?
You need to ask yourself what is saving faith?
Because that is what James is talking about!
Very good post."Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls. But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves." (James 1:21-22).
That verse belongs in the context.Try James 2:22...F + W = hand in hand!
I don't think you will find anyone that disagrees with that post.Matthew 5:48
Therefore you are to be (TRY to be spiritually MATURE) perfect, as your heavenly Father is (absolutely)perfect.
perfect...Greek 5046...teleios...
1.brought to its end, finished
2.wanting nothing necessary to completeness
3.perfect
4.that which is perfect
1.consummate human integrity and virtue
2.of men
1.full grown, adult, of full age, MATURE
A PERFECT MAN DOES NOT MEAN A SINLESS MAN!
IMPOSSIBLE!
Matthew 5:48
Therefore you are to be (TRY to be spiritually MATURE) perfect, as your heavenly Father is (absolutely)perfect.
perfect...Greek 5046...teleios...
1.brought to its end, finished
2.wanting nothing necessary to completeness
3.perfect
4.that which is perfect
1.consummate human integrity and virtue
2.of men
1.full grown, adult, of full age, MATURE
A PERFECT MAN DOES NOT MEAN A SINLESS MAN!
IMPOSSIBLE!
Abraham never offered his son, the angel held his hand, the work never took place.No. That kind of faith cannot save anyone. However, James was not just making a point only about poor brethren in the church in that specific situation only. His point was universal in the fact that if we fail to love others, things will not go well for us. Also, James uses Abraham and how he was justified by works by offering his son upon the alter. His point was not exclusive to the situation alone. Jesus also said that if we do not help the poor in this life, we can be cast into everlasting fire.
Very good post.
Abraham never offered his son, the angel held his hand, the work never took place.
Abraham was justified by believing what God told him, as the scripture states.
You are saved by GRACE through faith, and that not by your own pathetic works.
You said:You will never be allowed to boast, never, ever.
You said:Can an idle faith save you, that is the question James asks.
That's the way, ignore the context.James says we are justified by works and not by faith only in James 2:24. James says that Abraham was justified by works by offering his son upon the alter (James 2:21).
Oh yes you did, you believe in justification by works and in complete contradiction of salvation by Grace through faith.That is amusing. I never had any intention of doing so to begin with.
James is talking about watching others suffer, while you rest in your saving faith!James is talking about God directed works done through the believer.
Paul is really talking about legal works more often than not.Paul is talking about Man directed works.
No there is not, you an only be saved by God's gift to you in Christ Jesus.There is a difference;
I don't know why you keep repeating that idea, who thinks you can willfully sin to your hearts content?But neither one of them believed that God's grace was a license for immorality.
You I believe offered an answer to the question James asked.A faith (that is lived out) that has no works cannot save.
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