saved by Justification alone?
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Yes totally agree with you that context makes the difference. Justification is clearly a faith based process. The works however are also clearly connected to Justification.
We must put them together in their right biblical place. So this tells us that Faith true faith has works that follow it. Fruit if you will.
No works no real faith. They can not be separated. While the works are contingent on faith just as fruit needs first the seed. so also a lack of fruit shows a lack of seed. or a lack of works show a lack of faith.
We must put them together in their right biblical place. So this tells us that Faith true faith has works that follow it. Fruit if you will.
No works no real faith. They can not be separated. While the works are contingent on faith just as fruit needs first the seed. so also a lack of fruit shows a lack of seed. or a lack of works show a lack of faith.
I did not say I do not know. I asked a question to gain different perspectives and possible areas I have overlooked or missed myself.
As to your second sentence I would need more explanation.
Sure we are justified by Christ alone through faith. But works are a part of faith therefore your statement includes the works/fruit of faith.
But it is the faith that brings the works and thus it is the faith and not the works that save. works are simply the outgrowth of faith.
As to your second sentence I would need more explanation.
Sure we are justified by Christ alone through faith. But works are a part of faith therefore your statement includes the works/fruit of faith.
But it is the faith that brings the works and thus it is the faith and not the works that save. works are simply the outgrowth of faith.
This one between Paul and James is easy.
Paul is writing about works of the law.
James is writing about works of faith. He gives two examples. I'll only address one:
Rahab was a prostitute, yet she believed in God. How do I know? Works, not works of the law (for she was an adulteress), works of faith. How so? She was willing to lay her life on the line in order to help the spies....
That's a faith that works by love....On the other hand, Paul is right, by the works of the law no one will be justified. No one is good enough.
Keep in mind Rahab was already just in the coming Messiah. Her works of faith proved her faith.
Paul is writing about works of the law.
James is writing about works of faith. He gives two examples. I'll only address one:
Rahab was a prostitute, yet she believed in God. How do I know? Works, not works of the law (for she was an adulteress), works of faith. How so? She was willing to lay her life on the line in order to help the spies....
That's a faith that works by love....On the other hand, Paul is right, by the works of the law no one will be justified. No one is good enough.
Keep in mind Rahab was already just in the coming Messiah. Her works of faith proved her faith.
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We are holy and blameless only in Christ Jesus.
But, as we wait for Him to return, we get to experience growth in grace. This does not add to Christ's finished work, rather it witnesses to our faith in Him.
If we think it add or is meritorious, we are in danger of reverting to legalism. What happens if we think we can justify ourselves before God?
Gal 5:4 You have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you have fallen from grace.
So we are only righteous in Christ, but in the meantime we get to experience Christ because His Spirit is in us. Again, growth in grace doesn't add to Christ's finished work.
Another easy one, if we look at the context:
Rom 2:12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law 13 (for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified).
The phrase "under law" means to be ruled by the law. It means your salvation is based on the keeping of the law. This is the old covenant.
What Paul is telling the legalistic Jews is it isn't enough to hear the law read in Synagogue, you must keep the law if you wish to be justified by the law. And the law requires 100% righteousness with no failure. Failure to keep all the law brings the curse.
Gal 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them."
Rom 2:12 For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law 13 (for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified).
The phrase "under law" means to be ruled by the law. It means your salvation is based on the keeping of the law. This is the old covenant.
What Paul is telling the legalistic Jews is it isn't enough to hear the law read in Synagogue, you must keep the law if you wish to be justified by the law. And the law requires 100% righteousness with no failure. Failure to keep all the law brings the curse.
Gal 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse; for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do them."
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