Ferris Bueller
Well-Known Member
Yes, the grace of JUSTIFICATION. Works of faith are the result of ALREADY being justified, not in order to become justified as you are insisting James is saying.You have it backwards. Any Christian who does a good work does so in response to the grace God gave them in the first place.
Then you're saying James is guilty of vain glory when he says, "I will show you my faith by my deeds." (James 2:18).In turn, this glorifies God, not the person doing the good work. They don't SHOW to anybody, that would be vanity.
Have you even checked out my claim that the word 'justified' means, both, to be MADE righteous, and to be SHOWN to be righteous? If you want to have an honest, intelligent, level-headed discussion, please do that. Show me I'm wrong about that. Then you'll have a basis for the legitimacy of your argument. But as it stands now, I've got the legitimate, defensible argument. You do not. You won't until you successfully challenge my assertion that there are two definitions of the word 'justified' and that it demonstrably evident by context which one James is using and which one Paul is using.