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To: af_vet_1981
A more accurate translation reads 14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? (ESV)

Real faith produces works. Real faith saves. Works don't contribute to Salvation, but are evidence of being saved.

Suggest you read Hebrews 11. People are acting through faith and therefore saved.

14 posted on 04/28/2015 5:05:45 AM PDT by Gamecock (Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once, and He volunteered. R.C. Sproul)
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To: Gamecock
A more accurate translation reads ... (ESV)

Would that be ESV, revision of 1971, revision of 2007, revision of 2011 ... ? Odd how Protestantism did not have a more accurate translation until one of these dates; it tosses the KJV under the bus and effectively admits they've been winging it all along since the great rebellion.

Real faith produces works. Real faith saves. Works don't contribute to Salvation, but are evidence of being saved.

Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain. Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I joy, and rejoice with you all. For the same cause also do ye joy, and rejoice with me. But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state. For I have no man likeminded, who will naturally care for your state. For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's. But ye know the proof of him, that, as a son with the father, he hath served with me in the gospel.

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand. He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
Phillipians, Catholic chapter two, Protestant verses twelve to twenty two,
First Corinthians, Catholic chapter six, Protestant verses nine to ten,
Galatians, Catholic chapter five, Protestant verses nineteen to twenty one,
Revelation, Catholic chapter twenty two, Protestant verses ten to fifteen,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James, but abandoned by Protestantism for more accurate translations

Suggest you read Hebrews 11. People are acting through faith and therefore saved.

I love Hebrews. They are our witnesses.

16 posted on 04/28/2015 5:37:21 AM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began.)
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