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Your continual straw man arguments expose your true colors. You like to play games and are completely obsessed with attacking OSAS. :rolleyes:

I know what initially means. Without being made alive together with Christ (by grace through faith) we are still dead in our sins. (Ephesians 2:5-8) Christian works “follow” having been saved by grace through faith and having our sins forgiven. (Ephesians 2:8-10) All you constantly do is accuse...

Again, big difference between saved BY good works and saved FOR good works.

What do you mean by ONLY initially? When did I say I was against Christians doing good works? That is a straw man argument.

We show our faith by our works, but works do not establish our faith. The Christian faith results in producing works and we are saved FOR good works. (Ephesians 2:10)

We are saved apart from the merit of works, (Romans 4:2-6) yet authentic faith does not remain alone from the presence of works. (James 2:14-26)

In James 2:26, the comparison of the human spirit and faith converge around their modes of operation. The spirit (Greek pneuma) may also be translated "breath." As a breathless body exhibits no indication of life, so fruitless faith exhibits no indication of life. The source of the life in faith...

There is a big difference between saved FOR good works and saved BY good works. (Ephesians 2:8-10) Salvation “by” works is heresy.

There are those who have an empty profession of faith/dead faith that lacks resulting evidential works (James 2:14) yet there are also those who clearly teach we are saved by BOTH faith AND works, yet will try to claim that is not earning salvation. There are some dangerous unbalanced doctrines...

Christian works are the evidence of being a Christian, but are not the cause of becoming a Christian.

There may be a difference in style in various forms of works based salvation, but it's the same in substance - "works based false gospel." Trying to "infuse" works into the gospel is trying to "shoe horn" works "into" salvation through faith.

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That's exactly right! Such people may try to dance around that by saying, "well I don't teach salvation by works alone" or we are saved by "these" works and just not "those" works. I will never forget a conversation that I once had with a Roman Catholic in which I stated to him that we are saved...

How about now? "We do both faith and works for salvation" says it all. The same poster also said, "..salvation is obtained by faith, as in believing in God, plus works.." Clear case of salvation by faith and works.

We do both faith and works FOR salvation is clearly teaching we are saved by both faith AND works in contradiction to scripture. (Romans 4:5-6; Ephesians 2:8,9; Titus 3:5; 2 Timothy 1:9 etc..). Works-salvationists typically confuse 'descriptive' passages of scripture (those who have done good -...

In James 2:14, we read of one who says/claims he has faith but has no works (to evidence his claim). That is not genuine faith, but a bare profession of faith. So when James asks, "Can that faith save him?" he is saying nothing against genuine faith, but only against an empty profession of...

That salvation is by grace through faith and not by works (Ephesians 2:8,9) is not hard to understand. It's just hard for works-salvationists to ACCEPT. It's a shame that human pride will not allow works-salvationists to place their faith (belief, trust, reliance) in Jesus Christ as the...

I often hear that certain types of dreams have meanings or interpretations behind them. I remember many years ago when I attended a Catholic school (from 4th grade to 8th grade) I constantly had dreams that I could fly. Someone told me that means I was wanting to escape from something, which...

They told us the truth. 1 John 5:11 - And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13 These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of...