Two problems with your assertion here, first James explicitly says, "Thus, you can see that his (Abraham) faith and his (Abraham) works were active together; his (Abraham) faith was brought to completion by works.
Works complete faith. You really should pay attention to what I actually say instead of what your brain tells you I say. Can you try that?
Does James state that Abraham's works were complete? No. You're arguing against your own misreading.
We can and we have but as ive told you a 1000 times you don't pay attention. Yiu respond to what's in your head and not to what people actually say.
Where have I said said works need completion? This is another example of your incapacity to pay attention and it's astounding not me how you people get through life. I would consider it a minor miracle if you people still have all your digits.
You are the one not paying attention.
Saying I’m listening to my brain and not you makes zero sense. All hearing, all seeing, all understanding happens through the brain. That’s how we experience anything at all.
I am not self-righteous and my faith is not in my works but in His works, through which I am made righteous, because He is the same yesterday, today, and tomorrow, and my trust in Him is my assurance. Thinking that if my works aren’t complete He will break His promise is absurd.
But without your works you got nothing. Matt 25:31-46. In that entire story the word "faith" appears exactly zero times. I would think if faith alone was sufficient to inherit the Kingdom of heaven it would show up somewhere in a discussion about the end time judgement but instead they apparently wasted time taking about useless stuff like feeding the hungry and clothing the naked etc etc. Fascinating
Again, yes I listen to my brain like any human does. And 10 times would be gross exaggeration of 0, but 1000, that’s really taking it up there.
But you dont pay attention when people post here. You have repeatedly erred whenever you suggest works save people. You have been told a.million times no one believes their works save them but you keep posting it. That suggests you either arent paying attention or you aren't capable of paying attention. Now I always try to be generous of spirit but when the same untruth is said over and over again I begin to think the problem is more the latter than the former.
Matthew 25 is about the evidence of faith, not the source of salvation. The sheep did good works because their hearts trusted God. They did not earn heaven by feeding the hungry. Works flow from faith. They do not replace it.
Again you just can't pay attention. Verses 34-36. Who inherits the kingdom? Where does it say they are blessed by their faith? Oh that's right it doesn't verses 35 and 36 say otherwise.
Matthew 25 describes what the righteous did, not how they became righteous. Fruit shows the tree, it doesn’t create it.
So your opinion. I gave you bible verses.
I am not repeating errors that I have been taught.
Yes it's by grace that salvation is available but we are worthy only because we believe
You gave a Bible verse where Jesus says do the will of the Father. What’s the will of the Father? Why does Jesus tell them to depart if they did all the works?
You said works make faith salvific. Paul explains how a person is justified before God, while James explains how genuine faith is shown in a person’s life. Paul speaks of the root of salvation and James speaks of the fruit, because you cannot truly work for someone before you first put your faith in them. Without faith, your works are ultimately just working for yourself. It is like trying to make a tree produce fruit before it has roots, versus a healthy tree naturally bearing fruit. The root(salvation) produces the fruit(works) not the other way around.
The two things that conflict at once, are being saved from sinning, vs being saved while sinning.
