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Have you ever thought about the foolishness of what you just said?

Wow!! What a foolish thing to say.

Repentance is an action. Luke 13:3 New International Version I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. Whether or not mental or physical, it is a action. With consequences.

You repented in order to "continue to live in Gods grace"? What if you did not repent?

We are destined for Hell because of our sins. We are saved because of the remission of our sins. We may debate how we obtain this remission but not the need for the remission.

Jesus can bestow the remission of sins to anyone, including one or both of the thieves. It is not our place to negate what is clearly written in scripture to protect our theology. Your reasoning is carnal.

Who cares? God cares. King Saul did not care enough to obey God. Look how that ended for him. It was just a few sheep. Uzzah did not seem concerned enough to obey. Look how that ended for him. But I thought I was helping. Moses struck the rock. Look how that ended for him. Who cares if I hit...

God commands us to be water baptized so that we may receive the Holy Spirit. God actually said that. Acts 2:38 Peter answered them, “All of you must turn to God and change the way you think and act, and each of you must be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ so that your sins will be...

I have read your comment twice and cannot grasp your point. The question is rather simple, why does faith alone theology not have an example? The question is not about the need for faith but the need for faith alone. The question is not "pretty funny" the question is simple and fair.

Great thoughts but what about the question at hand?

It does not say "good works" it clearly states: "to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." So would it acceptable to assume that this is the only thing that will make "pure and faultless"? Its a simple yes or no question. I say...

How to be saved? James 1:27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. But I would never add alone. Of course not.

No one is debating this point. Focus on the lack of a definitive suggesting a general sense of meaning in the verses. Example: Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the...

Are you implying "universal grace"? It seems you are. Grace without obedience?

Read the verse again. It does not state: "Everyone who only believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God" James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world...

I think it was a rather good answer. Please don't be offended.

And some read into verses that which is not there.

Yes, I can see it. Is there some esoteric meaning other than what is written. Please expound.

It most certainly does. You are forcing a panacea understanding into a rather general statement. This is your error. I doubt you are willing to follow this narrative to its logical conclusion...universalism. Sense the verse is written in a rather general sense your question is impossible to...

If you have to claim that "alone" is implied in every one of your 33 verses but not actually stated then your theology is rather weak. Can you not find even one verse that supports your "faith alone" theology without this presumption??? Must you shoehorn this adjective/adverb into every one...