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It's a cooperation between God and man.What assurance is there when it basically depends entirely on you? Muslims have this dilemma, but for them Allah can reject them even if they lived the best life possible in their eyes...
God works in us by His Spirit to help us work out our salvation.I feel a lot of times when I tell someone that I don't have assurance of Salvation, they believe "I don't have a relationship with Jesus", but it is the opposite, I know that I have to work out my salvation every day.
What is your opinion?
If that's the case then James wouldn't have mentioned.The only problem with that thinking is that Christ didn’t come and die on the cross for demons: he died for the sins of men. When men believe and trust him, they have remission of sins.
I don't deny that.God works in us by His Spirit to help us work out our salvation.
All He asks us to do is to believe in His Name and joyfully do His will.I don't deny that.
Nope, because we still need God's grace to be saved.So then, you have something to boast about.
It is not the quantity but the quality of one's lifestyle.
I am not the one who called James "Epistle of Straw" for not teaching faith alone.Please, let's not take apart James from his own argument. Heretics do this.
Just 'believing' doesn't prove that anyone is a disciple of Christ JesusIf that's the case then James wouldn't have mentioned.
"You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that--and shudder. "(James 2:19)
Nope, because we still need God's grace to be saved.
We will be rewarded for what we have done for Jesus.How do we know that? What I read repeatedly is just that we have to perform works. But if it is quality, are you able to rank the possible good deeds for us according to quality?
I am not the one who called James "Epistle of Straw" for not teaching faith alone.
Abraham was counted righteous before God prior to Isaac's birth. The offering of Isaac was merely a justification of Abraham's faith. Abraham's faith had already previously justified him before God, however. Scripture is clear in this.James 2:21
"Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar?"
I can boast even if I don't have a choice because I was one of the chosen ones.Again, then you have something to boast about. It doesn't matter if God gave you grace to make you "able," if you were the one who used that grace than another you have something to boast about.
The Christian is a man who says, ‘Yes, alas, it is true; I have been vile and horrible and a desperate sinner, yet I believe I stand righteous in the presence of God in Christ.’ He can face his past, he can look into himself and see the vileness, the pollution, of sin still remaining, and when the devil says, ‘Do you think you have a right to say that you are a Christian?’, he says, ‘Yes, I do. In spite of the fact that all this is true of me, I know I am righteous in Christ.’ He does not look at himself to find justification, he looks entirely out to Christ and all that he is in Christ.Romans 4:2-3 “For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.”
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