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How do we harmonize Scriptures which teach the plain truth that we are saved by grace through faith which is not of ourselves, but a gift from God, not of works, lest any man should boast - with many other Scriptures which apparently teach salvation is also, to one degree or another, by works?
Do we throw these others out?
Do we discredit certain authors, as Martin Luther once discredited James?
Do we adopt a Dispensationalist view which says James wrote to this one, John to that one, and Paul to the others?
No, we recognize that appearances mean nothing, be mature enough to accept what the whole counsel of Scripture when taken together reveals, and ask God for grace to accept and live by what is an extremely unpopular truth - that we are saved by grace through faith, but judged by our works, because works are the evidence that we've been saved by grace through faith.
Do we throw these others out?
Do we discredit certain authors, as Martin Luther once discredited James?
Do we adopt a Dispensationalist view which says James wrote to this one, John to that one, and Paul to the others?
No, we recognize that appearances mean nothing, be mature enough to accept what the whole counsel of Scripture when taken together reveals, and ask God for grace to accept and live by what is an extremely unpopular truth - that we are saved by grace through faith, but judged by our works, because works are the evidence that we've been saved by grace through faith.
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