Originally posted by @rajk999Saved by grace through faith, not of works.
Believing and doing are two different things
one is faith the other is works
Faith and works
Two components of salvation.
Can faith save you? James asks
What is the answer.
But then how could you boast, right?
Works follow salvation. They do not save. You promote a false gospel. Comes with anathema.
Originally posted by @secondsonEvade substantive discussions? Dive?!.....Really?
Yet still you evade substantive discussions about the relevance of matters spiritual with the attendant scriptural evidence applicable to the topic.
Instead you treat this forum, and its posters, as a backdrop in which you can make comparisons with. A sure sign of insecurity.
2 Corinthians 10:12
For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or comp ...[text shortened]... hey measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.
I think he positively seeks them out and is willing to ask difficult questions, even about his own faith.
-Removed-Well, if today's posting is a representative example of how you've been posting here for ten years, then I'm glad I missed it.
"...standing up vehemently and unequivocally for my Lord Jesus Christ."
Jesus may very well be your saviour, I can't say, but if Jesus is your Lord, then why do you rub elbows with a Christ denying heretic?
You do realize Rajk holds to the heretical doctrine about the identity of Jesus, your Lord, promoted by the watchtower don't you?
Originally posted by @secondsonWhat doth it profit, my brethren,
Quote the verse where James asks the question "can faith save you?"
though a man say he hath faith,
and have not works?
can faith save him?
If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
And one of you say unto them,
Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled;
notwithstanding ye give them not those things
which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
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.
Thou believest that there is one God;
thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
(James 2:14-20 KJV)
Originally posted by @secondsonYou do not understand that passage
Saved by grace through faith, not of works.
But then how could you boast, right?
Works follow salvation. They do not save. You promote a false gospel. Comes with anathema.
I challenged you to explain it and you ran away
like a coward.
You are cherry picking.
Read the Cherry pickers thread .. read it
Paul explained what he meant in Ephesians
SAVED DOES NOT MEAN ETERNAL LIFE
If you read the whole of Ephesians the WHOLE doctrine is
Faith + Works = Eternal life
