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NASB | James 5:16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | James 5:16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another [your false steps, your offenses], and pray for one another, that you may be healed and restored. The heartfelt and persistent prayer of a righteous man (believer) can accomplish much [when put into action and made effective by God--it is dynamic and can have tremendous power]. |
Subject: Ridding myself of guilt and fear |
Bible Note: Hello BradK: It is nice to have someone to "talk" to about God's word, so please don't think that I am on the "defense" of what you are saying, but I will try to 'defend' my thoughts on various biblical topics based on my many years of bible studies (45 plus)and yet still 'little' and ever-learning knowledge of His word. So, you replied that because of the scriptures that I chose in trying to explain my understanding of salvation that I take more of a "works-based" approach to salvation - I indeed do NOT. However, I do believe there are scriptures in God's word that are clearly opposite to those who believe that the only thing necessary for anyone to be "saved" is for them to acknowledge and accept Christ, and in so doing, their faith in this act (which is still "doing" something - i.e. a 'work'?) will indeed be considered by God through His grace unto their righteousness? What about all of the examples listed in Hebrews of the 'faith unto works' that God considered righteousness unto Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph? According to Hebrews 11:17-22 and other scriptures I have read daily and studied, they indeed teach something other than a 'saved by grace through faith only' approach to salvation. Otherwise, why would anyone bother to teach others the truth, for in so doing, you are "doing something" that is taught by Christ to do, am I correct? I am not saying that it will "earn" your salvation, because it will not - only God's grace can do that, but how else are we to live as Christ, if we do not "do" anything at all, or change our lives to be in accordance with His will? It is absurd! I also did not intend to mean that 'you' had the ability to limit God in my previous comments (as I too, duly know that God is Sovereign and no one can limit his sovereignty), but I was merely suggesting that your 'thinking' that I was a member of the Church of Christ sounded like you were not viewing God as capable of revealing His truth to whomever he deems wanting (except maybe outside of some man or university or denomination teaching it to me). Excuse me if I am not as educated a theologian as yourself, I am merely a bible student who is sincerely seeking God's truth and I am a Christian who was baptized into Christ back in 1972. I also have not gone to some bible university to be enlightened on all of the various viewpoints and slants that tend to be placed on God's word by certain 'men' and 'scholars', but try to ask God's guidance to reveal His truth to me in my daily walk and study of His Holy word. In Christ, happy soul |