QUOTE(unknown warrior @ Aug 4 2023, 10:56 AM)
Same thing, from verse 22, the writer is still talking to a person, the perceiving is from a person. (Verse 22 & 24)
There cannot be 2 different sets of righteousness at the same time.
The Bible language is very clear, Salvation and Righteousness is a gift and it's by grace.
It's not something you do to gain it. What is implied in James 2 ,is that you are righteous by what you do, this means this righteousness is gain by your works.
Something you do to gain means it's owed to you, This contradicts the meaning of grace.......6 And if it is by grace, then it is no longer by works. Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace. (Romans 11:6)
This also contradicts Ephesians 2:8-10. Especially Verse 9. <--THIS
8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—
9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Verse 10 = Works of God so this is something you cannot use to qualify. Why? Because God is the one working, not you.
Indeed. The whole of James 2 is about works and faith. There isn't any 2 sets of righteousness.
It's a gift and by grace. However, the interpretation of what faith is, is differently perceived here by you and i.
And James is clarifying the matter here.
James is saying that works differentiates what is dead and live faith.
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17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
The thing is this. The Jewish understanding of faith is not the contemporary understanding of mental faith.
the Jewish understanding of faith is inseparable from works. That is the reason you see this in Hebrews 11. Every faith reckoned is followed by works and was reckoned to each of the saints as righteousness:
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7 By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house(WORKS); by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
8 By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. (WORKS)
9 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise:
10 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. (WORKS)
11 Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed (WORKS), and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
Therefore clarification from James:
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17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
18 Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Question now is DOES DEAD FAITH RESULT IN SALVATION?
Jul 31 2023, 02:39 PM
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