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1 | Faith working through love | Gal 5:6 | Emmaus | 37156 | ||
Handy, To say that doing good works means nothing contradicts the scripture. If you do good works in Christ you are doing His work. Take a look at theses passages and put your mind at rest. Matt 7:21 Matt 19:16-17 Matt 25:34-46 John 14:21 Romans 2:28 Galatians 5:4-6 Ephesians 2:8-10 Philemon 2:12-13 James 2:14-24 Emmaus |
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2 | Faith working through love | Gal 5:6 | Jh2 | 37646 | ||
I belive this is a subjekt containing at least two essential emphasis. The first is faith, and the second is love. If we take our startingpoint in James 2:14-26 we will find that it states that deeds are essential for our salvation. It is a radical passage on living a life in accord with the word of God. Still it hammers down in Ephesians 2:8 that we can not add anything to our faith. Deeds will make no difference. What should we than act upon? No doubt, do the good works, for it is good! But what is the connection? Faith is the essential word here. Faith meens trust. And to trust in God meens so much moore than to know that He exists. It is once again two major aspects. Firstly it is to trust Him for your eternal life and your salvation, secondly to trust Him to lead your life in the right way - letting Him be the master. This leaves Him Lord and Saviour. This summes up the faith part. Faith leads to action because He has the right to lead your life, and that causes action. Secondly I mentiond love (Joh 14:21). We do not want to grieve our loved ones. We will sacrefice a great deal to keep them happy. The love for God should trigger the same reaction. If we love God our will will be in accordence with His. Our love to Him will also trigger love to our fellow man, because that is just the way God works. And love for our neighbor will lead to good deeds. I hope this will trigger both some thoughts and resolve some theological difficulties. With blessings, Jh2 |
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3 | Faith working through love | Gal 5:6 | Emmaus | 37688 | ||
Jh2, Apparently you are responding to a double post. My original post was in response to a question by Handy that was was not related to justification. That being said: "faith without works is dead" James 2:20,26 is crystal clear and intentionally blunt. Faith in Christ cannot be separated from works in Christ or you don't really have any Faith to show, only a lifeless corpse of a mental concept without any spiritual substance and of no earthly good either. They are two side of the same coin. We know James is speaking about the same Faith as Paul because they both use Abraham's faith as the illustrating example. Paul never says we are saved by faith alone and James never says we are saved by works alone but he does says: "we are not saved by faith alone" James 2:24. If you look at James and Paul in full context it is clear that faith in Christ and works in Christ are inseparable if we are talking about a living saving faith. It is no accident that Paul opens and closes Romans with the phrase "the obedience of faith" Romans 1:5 and 16:26, which fits perfectly with Galatians 5:5 and James. It is not a matter of works adding to faith. Works in Christ are the physical embodiment and manifestation of faith in Christ, without which faith is dead. For human beings as created and as God intended us to be, the body and the spirit are an integrated unit. That is why our redemption is not complete until our bodies are resurrected at the Second Coming. It goes without saying that works in Christ are not the same thing as "works of the law" such as circumcision, which Paul is often speaking about in Romans. The "obedience of faith" is as different from the "works of the law" as are the commandments written on stone from the commandments written on our hearts. Emmaus |
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