[ebb tide]

...it is the genuine Christian who demonstrates through a holy life the new spirit nature that is the reality born again believers know.

So it appears you do consider good works to be necessary?

[ealgeone]

Faith is what saves the individual. The works come about as a result.

[metmom]

So it appears you do consider good works to be necessary?

No, good works are not NECESSARY.

Ever.

But they WILL follow as the fruit of a life that has been redeemed.

The only possible reason they would be considered *necessary* is in order to convince the skeptic that the life has been changed by God.

But they certainly are not necessary to prove anything to GOD who knows the heart.

[boatbums]

So it appears you do consider good works to be necessary?

Necessary for what, EB? Are we given eternal life because we do good works or because we believe in God's only begotten son? Let's see if you can understand what Paul was teaching here:

For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2:8-10)