Sorry SG, I thought that I was clear. Salvation is by faith alone. ...but, how does one determine the authenticity of one's faith? This, I believe, is what James was addressing. Like love, which cannot be verified by measuring apparatuses, is evident by how one treats another. Similarly, faith, if real, cannot go unnoticed.By what standard is one considered to have veracity? Only God knows the relationship between himself and his children. I don't think that God is using an abacus to count our works. Perhaps I am missing something, or I have misunderstood you. That is not my intention.
Thus, James was denouncing those who claimed to have faith, but showed their contempt, or lack of faith, by their ignoble works. James' epistle was not a prescription on the necessity to supplement faith with works, but predominantly, a rebuke to those who were mocking faith with a shallow or void conviction.
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