between Paul and James. I said Paul said you are "justified, not by your good works but through faith in God only", while James says you are "justified by your good works through faith in Jesus only". Most of you said there's no contradiction. You essentially said James was correcting the wrong impression from what Paul said. One cannot claim to be justified without showing the work of that justification. In fact, James 2 (verses are in brackets) is explicit
[14] What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him?
[17] So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.
[22] You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by works,
[24] You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.
Today some of you lynched on me when I said this. Don't you think the way some of you are brash on issues like this is undoing your work?
2007-01-16
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