So you believe that faith is works. Such belief is contrary to scriptures. You know that and yet it is what you believe. Why?Exactly! If we have faith why then do we need to exercise it?
You asked "If we have faith why then do we need to exercise it?" Well, we don't exercise faith, in the same sense that we don't exercise hope or exercise love. Faith is not an action word that it is something to be exercised. It is something that comes from God and not as you believe is something that comes from man. Faith comes to man, by hearing the words of God. Now a man who has faith is enabled to produce good works, and even is enabled to do incredible things which the person otherwise could not do without faith.
Faith is not works, but faith is that which the good works of a man shows to have.
Tong
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