Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
This is a primary principle in life among all the living in matters of faith, that is confirmed in Scripture.
This is not, as some suggest, a teaching of Scripture pertaining only to being a blessing to others, but is not pertaining to God saving our souls.
The principle is simple: there is no such thing as 'faith' in any matter nor for any purpose, that is alone without works.
Among men it's called being all talk and no show, all mouth, puts on a good show only, plenty of faith on the inside and nothing on the outside, he talks a good game but does nothing about it, and finally there is Missouri the Show Me state:
Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
God simply sums it up as dead, being alone.
The principle confirmed in Scripture therefore concludes that no man is saved by any faith alone:
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
And there is no faith of God that is alone, because God is not the God of the dead but of the living: the just that live by faith, not the dead that have faith alone.
This is a primary principle in life among all the living in matters of faith, that is confirmed in Scripture.
This is not, as some suggest, a teaching of Scripture pertaining only to being a blessing to others, but is not pertaining to God saving our souls.
The principle is simple: there is no such thing as 'faith' in any matter nor for any purpose, that is alone without works.
Among men it's called being all talk and no show, all mouth, puts on a good show only, plenty of faith on the inside and nothing on the outside, he talks a good game but does nothing about it, and finally there is Missouri the Show Me state:
Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
God simply sums it up as dead, being alone.
The principle confirmed in Scripture therefore concludes that no man is saved by any faith alone:
What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
And there is no faith of God that is alone, because God is not the God of the dead but of the living: the just that live by faith, not the dead that have faith alone.