Read Hebrews 11 please?

Question

And the read Hebrews 12:1. By what standard did God judge these people to be faithful witnesses?

Answer 1

How their faith was demonstrated by their works.

'By faith Abraham as good as offered his son'
'By faith Abel offered God a sacrifice of greater worth than Cain'
'By faith Noah showed godly fear and constructed an ark', etc

The Bible makes it clear that godly devotion, or righteous works, are necessary for salvation. Not that works alone will get a person salvation. However, true faith moves a person to action. James, under inspiration, made that quite clear. (James 2:14-26) James, though, was not the only Bible writer to acknoweldge this:

"Likewise let your light shine before men, that they may see your fine works and give glory to your Father who is in the heavens" -Jesus at Matthew 5:16

"For we are a product of his work and were created in union with Christ Jesus for good works" -Epesians 2:10

"in the way that befits women professing to reverence God, namely, through good works" -1 Timothy 2:10

see also:
Hebrews 13:16
1 Timothy 6:18
John 10:32
John 3:21
2 Peter 3:11
Revelation 3:2

Any person who claims James was wrong about the need for having good works in a person's life is also rejecting the truthful teachings of God and Christ Jesus. Such persons do not want to slave for God and they would rather honor Jesus with their mouths instead of using their heart to do what is asked of them. -Matthew 15:8; 28:19, 20

James never said that works could earn a person's salvation, nor did he say that works replace faith. James was pointing out that if a person truly has faith, his faith will be evident by the way the person lives his life (compare Romans 1:17; 2:6-8).

Answer 2

Hebrews 11:39-40
And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: [40] God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

Answer 3

Oh, I'm sure you'll get plenty of atheists to admit that. Not! You must be a real glutton for punishment. EDIT: Ya know, I'd be willing to bet you woulda gotten through this whole question without anyone noticing you had the wrong scripture if you hadn't said anything.

Answer 4

lol. I know you.

It is faith. Compare it ti the works James talked about. James was wrong.

Abraham trusted God, and was counted as righteous.

So too must we.

With faith the Holy Spirit enters in. And the works which are done are both eternal in implication, and solely a credit to God. We can therefore say, " Glory to God."

Answer 5

By faith.

See vs. 11:2
"For by [faith] the elders obtained a good testimony."

I also concur with the two posts above.