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1 | Saved by belief or belief and baptism? | NT general Archive 1 | bslinker | 37795 | ||
Its a combination of the two. We can go to easily understood passages in James Chapter 2 James 2:20 "But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith WITHOUT works is USELESS?" Then we go down a couple more verses to verse 26 James 2:26 "For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead." I think we can easily understand the example of the "body without a spirit" in the verse above, that you cannot have one without the other. Hope this helps, thanks for the reply! Barry |
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2 | Saved by belief or belief and baptism? | NT general Archive 1 | Reformer Joe | 37802 | ||
I agree completely that true faith will result in works. But Paul is very clear in stating that it is the faith by which we are saved, and not the works. Christ's righteousness is credited to us not on the basis of us earning it or deserving it in the slightest (Romans 8:7-9 makes that pretty impossible), but on the basis of faith. Works are the evidence of our salvation, not the basis of it. That is true Christianity, standing firmly between legalism on one extreme and antinomianism on the other. Best way I can put it? We are saved by God's grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, but no works means no true faith. --Joe! |
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