SOLA FIDE?
SOLA FIDE?
FAITH WITH WORKS: NONE ALONE
PAUL: For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. - Eph. 2: 8-10
JAMES: What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? ... Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. ... You see then that a man is justified by works, not by faith only. - Jam. 2:14,17, 24
MARTIN LUTHER: "We are saved by faith alone" ... James is an Epistle of straw" - c. 1522
WAYNE GRUDEM: "We are saved by faith, but the faith that saves is not alone."
MARTIN LUTHER: Faith is a living, restless thing. It cannot be inoperative. We are not saved by works; but if there be no works, there must be something amiss with faith.
CONCLUSION
We are justified by works proceeding from faith, not works alone, and not faith without works.
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FAITH WITH WORKS: NONE ALONE
PAUL: For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. - Eph. 2: 8-10
JAMES: What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? ... Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. ... You see then that a man is justified by works, not by faith only. - Jam. 2:14,17, 24
MARTIN LUTHER: "We are saved by faith alone" ... James is an Epistle of straw" - c. 1522
WAYNE GRUDEM: "We are saved by faith, but the faith that saves is not alone."
MARTIN LUTHER: Faith is a living, restless thing. It cannot be inoperative. We are not saved by works; but if there be no works, there must be something amiss with faith.
CONCLUSION
We are justified by works proceeding from faith, not works alone, and not faith without works.
#NotSoNew
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