[StormPrepper]

Do you really think that an unsaved person, that is one without faith in Christ, gains Heaven by doing good deeds?

How many times do I have to say no to this before you hear me?

How many times do I have to keep repeating that salvation comes through Jesus Christ, but we have to do as He commands before He will give us salvation. How many times do I have to keep repeating that statement before you hear me?

And Abraham believed God and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. What "good work" had Abraham done prior to that to "earn" his righteousness?

James 1
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

Gen 26
4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;

5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

Jesus will not save you for belief alone.

James 2
19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?

17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

Do you really believe that faith alone will save you?

[verga]

Mark 8:18 was specifically written for the protestants that were to come.

[Elsie]

Do you really believe that faith alone will save you?

This might not be found in the Inspired Version...
...and it is suspect in the following:

Luke 8:43-48   King James Version (KJV)

⁴³ And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,

⁴⁴ Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue of blood stanched.

⁴⁵ And Jesus said, Who touched me? When all denied, Peter and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude throng thee and press thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?

⁴⁶ And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.

⁴⁷ And when the woman saw that she was not hid, she came trembling, and falling down before him, she declared unto him before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately.

⁴⁸ And he said unto her, Daughter, be of good comfort: thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace.

 

 

 

[ealgeone]

Paul and James both reference this exact verse.

Keep it in context:

When was Abraham declared righteous?

What had he done for this?

In Genesis 26 you're equating the giving of the land with Abraham's righteousness....two different things. The covenant for the land came after he had been declared righteous.

God does not give salvation in one place and then take it back in another.

Now, as a follower of Christ do we do the things He's told us to do? You betcha. I don't know of a Christian who would say otherwise.

To use a sport analogy....when you're on the team you do what the coach says. .