Behold
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AI, can you please address this, I'm still making coffee..
Paul's Gospel.
Anything else is : Galatians 1:8
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AI, can you please address this, I'm still making coffee..
We aren't talking about works or deeds of the law. Faith is completed by works. If faith needs to be completed then by definition isn't not sufficient by itself. You need to learn the meaning of the word. We are saved by faith. But it's faith that is completed by works. Stop bellowing that I'm claiming works save they don't but if faith alone was sufficient there would be no reason for James to say, faith is completed by faith.Its "Grace through Faith", "without works or deeds of the Law".
And a Chrsitian is going to produce good works......as this is the Fruit of Salvation.
James told a group of Chrisitans who had dead faith, that they need to produce good works as works prove Faith exists....that its alive.
They had dead faith, and James is showing them what to do about that........
Now...... they are saved, because their FAITH was countd by God as "Christ's Righteosness".. which is why they became a born again Christian.....but LATER.... they were not producing the Fruit that a vibrant faith will produce.
So, James is exhorting them and correcting them.
You can repeat yourself but nothing you cite says faith alone. You add that to the text.
Just a side note: don't bother replying more than once to my posts. I don't read them all but if you want to post 3 times to my one knock yourself out. Volume of content doesn't make you write but I've been through this rodeo more than once with you people.

Whenever you abandon the topic and attack the poster we know you have no theologically sound argument. You're a sad example of a Paulinian. I won't call you a Christian because you follow Paul
Whenever you abandon the topic
Interesting thought, though I find it overly simplistic, and not reflective of real love.If you aren't free to walk away you are not with Jesus out of love. Love by definition requires free will.
The LAST thing anyone needs is you explaining anything let alone theologicallyLet me explain Salvation to you.. as God provided it. @nedsk
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There exists in Heaven, Eternal Holy God, who is Righteousness.
And there is Heaven, where there is only Righteousness, found.
So, the eternal issue is.....how can a sinner, who is unrighteous, become "one with God" and go to heaven?
A.) So, God became a man, and died on The Cross so that by His blood and death Sacrifice, that is the NEW Covenant... God could deal with all our sin, and then give us His very own Righteousness.
And now being "made righteous", by the "imputed righteousness of Christ"... that is """ the GIFT of Righteousness"" we are become born again, = joined to God, spiritually.
See that? That is Salvation and its eternal.
That is Eternal Life. That is what it means to be "IN Christ"..
Now......notice this verse carefully...
"""""""Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for Righteousness."""""
Notice that God counted or imputed = RIGHTEOUSNESS to Abraham, soley and only based on Abrahams faith.
And God does the same for us.., as our "Faith is counted by God as (Christ's) Righteousness".
The means that the Believer has received RIGHTEOUSNESS from God, as a GIFT......>"The Gift of Righteousness".
One more comment on this post . . . while you've posted your reasoning, I've posted Scriptures, which you've not responded to, except by posting your reasoning how these things must not be true. How is that sound?If you aren't free to walk away you are not with Jesus out of love. Love by definition requires free will.
Good grief. You can't be that obtuse can you? I didn't even bother reading past that ridiculous scenario with your wife. I never said being able to leave was the reason you love Jesus. What's wrong with you? Did your wife force you to marry her? Did you not choose to marry her? Being free to leave isn't the cause of your love that's a perverted twist.Interesting thought, though I find it overly simplistic, and not reflective of real love.
I wonder what my wife would say if we applied that to our marriage? Honey, you have to realize, I can leave you at any time. It's because I love you!
God has promised us . . . one of His many great and precious promises by which we might become partakers of His holiness . . . "I will never leave you, nor forsake you!"
Having bound Himself by promise, our God, Who cannot lie, is not "free to walk away", unless He were to break His promise.
I've promised my wife that I will love her and cherish her until death separates us. Does love require the freedom to break my vow? It seems to me that love is NOT breaking my vow, that my choice was made many years ago, and the honorable man does not break his vow.
To live out my love for my wife is to never leave her, never forsake her, always remain true to her. There's no "secret back door" that proves I'm really there for love. The proof of my love for her is my constancy with her.
Yes, love requires our choosing to love, however, at least for me, having already chosen to love, now the only issue is to live out that love. My sole desire is to continue in love for my wife. I chose her 37 years ago.
Love is NOT reserving the right to leave. Love is committing to remain, and doing so.
In loving God, I have that same desire, that same intent, for constancy in my love for Him. God empowers me to make that so, because He loves me.
Much love!
The LAST thing anyone needs is you explaining anything let alone theologically

But Jesus said the opposite:“Relax, you’ll be gone before things get rough. No need to endure. No need to prepare. Just wait for your golden ticket.”
And then the flood comes — and those are the very ones who perish.“That fool doesn’t get it. We’re not supposed to endure this flood — we’re going to be raptured up in the water! Praise God, the flood will carry us to heaven!”

Manners, they can make or break a conversation. Outpouring your negative comments about others reflects on you, not on them.Good grief. You can't be that obtuse can you?
I fully agree, and I say the same about Jesus. Having chosen to marry her, having chosen to trust in Jesus, there's no going back. "Love" doesn't require an exit door. Love is constancy, which God has promised in no uncertain terms. It's a forever thing.If you weren't free to say no to your wife about marrying her then you didn't marry her out of love.
Yeah maybe but I wasn't ill mannered. I pointed out that you couldn't possibly be so obtuse as be so completely off base about what I said. You genuinely believe I was saying, you could leave you because you love you???????? That is so far away from want I actually said it's mind numbing to me.Manners, they can make or break a conversation.
Much love
I never said love requires an exit door. That's you adding content to what I said. I love my wife because I want to not because I have to or because now I'm married to her. Our marriage doesn't bind me to her as a prisoner or as another poster has claimed, like a slave.I fully agree, and I say the same about Jesus. Having chosen to marry her, having chosen to trust in Jesus, there's no going back. "Love" doesn't require an exit door. Love is constancy, which God has promised in no uncertain terms. It's a forever thing.
Much love!
The Galatians had begun in faith but had slipped into adding works to their salvation.
You chose to unload a bunch of negative thoughts that mean nothing to the conversation, only your posturing.That's what you claimed and I called it what it was.
You say nothing I cite says “faith alone,” but that’s exactly what the Word of God declares. Paul couldn’t be clearer:You can repeat yourself but nothing you cite says faith alone. You add that to the text.
Good grief. You can't be that obtuse can you?
Your words.If you aren't free to walk away you are not with Jesus out of love. Love by definition requires free will.
I agree that the Galatians “fell away,” but Paul is clear on what they fell away from, attempting to put law-keeping on top of the gospel. In fact, Paul accuses them of being foolish in that regard: “Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?” (Galatians 3:3). They were not simply “fallen into the world,” they were being bewitched into thinking works could make them complete what Christ did (Galatians 3:1).No, the Galatians went back to living under the OT laws and quit walking with the Lord in faith.
Ephesians 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Those who are truly walking with the Lord abiding in Him by faith baring fruit will always be walking in good works
Those who have been born again but turn back to the world have disqualified themselves because they chose to turn their back on the Lord and walk away. Jesus did not forsake them, they forsook Jesus
2 Peter 2:20
For if after they have escaped the pollution of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
And yet, the OSAS peoples will claim 2 Peter 2:20 is not speaking about Christians.... because that's what the demons they are following instruct them to say.