[Salvation]

Is the book of James in your Bible? Then please pick it up and read it again. (You do know that Luther added the word 'alone' to the word faith is Paul's letters, don't you?)

Reading 1 Jas 2:14-24, 26

What good is it, my brothers and sisters,
if someone says he has faith but does not have works?
Can that faith save him?
If a brother or sister has nothing to wear
and has no food for the day,
and one of you says to them,
“Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,”
but you do not give them the necessities of the body,
what good is it?
So also faith of itself,
if it does not have works, is dead.

Indeed someone might say,
“You have faith and I have works.”
Demonstrate your faith to me without works,
and I will demonstrate my faith to you from my works.
You believe that God is one.
You do well.
Even the demons believe that and tremble.
Do you want proof, you ignoramus,
that faith without works is useless?
Was not Abraham our father justified by works
when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar?
You see that faith was active along with his works,
and faith was completed by the works.
Thus the Scripture was fulfilled that says,
Abraham believed God,
and it was credited to him as righteousness,
and he was called the friend of God.
See how a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
For just as a body without a spirit is dead,
so also faith without works is dead.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

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[jonrick46]

Yes, believers are justified, or declared righteous before God, solely by faith. You must look at James’ writings in their context. Works are the evidence of salvation through faith. These are not works we try to do to demonstrate our righteousness. Authentic faith leads automatically to good works so that works become the evidence of our salvation. It is something that God does by working in those who are saved.

A believer may ask for the power of God to make a person’s short leg to grow instantly to the length of the other leg. Such events happen not because of the power of the Christian. The Christian has no healing power. It is the power of the Holy Spirit that does the healing. Through faith God works in the life of the believer. Works, such as healings, demonstrates God’s power through our faith.

[Iscool]

So does James void those verses post in #13??? Shouldn’t one try to reconcile all the scriptures instead of pit some against others???

[xone]

You do know that Luther added the word 'alone' to the word faith is Paul's letters, don't you?

Paul wrote a lot, where did Luther add 'alone'.