"There is no such thing as faith alone. It is a misnomer used by workers for salvation to support their works based theology. We are saved by GRACE alone through FAITH alone. But faith is never alone."
This is just classic sophistry, but it works.
First, there is such a thing as believers in faith alone, because they are rebuked by Scripture in James 2.
However, now we have a faith alone believer trying to redefine faith alone that saves, as faith that is never indeed alone.
Since saving and justifying faith is now declared never alone, then what does Scripture say makes faith unalone?
Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
God says only works makes faith not to be alone and dead, so that the only faith alone that can save and justify a man, is only that faith that has works and so is not alone: we are thus saved only by that faith with works, that is never alone.
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
Not only are we saved by faith with works, not being indeed alone, but we are only justified by continuing in that faith that always has works, and is never alone.
Therefore, the truth of Ephesians 2:8 is:
For by grace are ye saved only through that faith that is with works, not being alone and dead.
So long as the good works are seen by God and man, then so does that faith with good works save and justify any man. Until faith has works, it is unsaving faith that is indeed alone.
This is just classic sophistry, but it works.
First, there is such a thing as believers in faith alone, because they are rebuked by Scripture in James 2.
However, now we have a faith alone believer trying to redefine faith alone that saves, as faith that is never indeed alone.
Since saving and justifying faith is now declared never alone, then what does Scripture say makes faith unalone?
Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
God says only works makes faith not to be alone and dead, so that the only faith alone that can save and justify a man, is only that faith that has works and so is not alone: we are thus saved only by that faith with works, that is never alone.
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
Not only are we saved by faith with works, not being indeed alone, but we are only justified by continuing in that faith that always has works, and is never alone.
Therefore, the truth of Ephesians 2:8 is:
For by grace are ye saved only through that faith that is with works, not being alone and dead.
So long as the good works are seen by God and man, then so does that faith with good works save and justify any man. Until faith has works, it is unsaving faith that is indeed alone.