I think you are confusing or missing the biblical reality that good works are the result or evidence of salvation… that one has already received as a free gift through God’s grace.
You don’t have to agree, but that’s what I believe the scriptures are saying.
“In the Parable of the Sheep and...
Certainly faith without works is dead, as stated in the book of James. Nevertheless, the scriptures are clear that it is by faith that one is justified, not works. Abraham believed God and it was accounted to him for righteousness (Romans 4:3; Galatians3:6; James 2:23). Because Abraham believed...
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
James 2:20
The vain man that James is referring to is Paul, who wrote about Abraham and faith in Romans 4:2 and Galatians3:6
In context, James was talking about Genesis 15. Again fulfilment is mentioned.
But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by...
This sounds to me like it's somewhat a reference to Galatians 3:10-13.
I think, when we understand what the covenant with Abraham, involves, that makes quite a huge difference, in our understanding.
The scriptures do say, that Abraham put faith in God, and it was counted as righteousness...
I believe in the Gospels...not in a person who used to persecute Christians and then he allegedly converted.
People don't change just liked that. Neither did Paul.
How can anyone read the New testament and say faith is irrelevant?
Romans 4:3
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.”
Romans 4:9
Is this blessing then on the circumcised, or on the uncircumcised also? For we say, “Faith was...
Denial is not a valid argument.
Here's the verse in the Hebrew scripture which Paul attempts to use for his loophole.
לֹֽא־תָלִין נִבְלָתוֹ עַל־הָעֵץ כִּֽי־קָבוֹר תִּקְבְּרֶנּוּ בַּיּוֹם הַהוּא כִּֽי־קִלְלַת אֱלֹהִים תָּלוּי וְלֹא תְטַמֵּא אֶת־אַדְמָתְךָ אֲשֶׁר יְהֹוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ נֹתֵן לְךָ...
The apostle Paul througout the book of Hebrews, talks a lot about the relationship between the Old testament Sanctuary and the Heavenly Sanctuary. And in Galations he talks about the Israelites and Spiritual Israel. It is his claim that we, the Gentiles, have inherited the right to call...
Why are you trying to be sinless? Only God can remove sin. You or I can't.
Psalms 51:1-3; 1 John 1:8-10;
The reason one is sinless in heaven, is because they died to sin, both spiritually, and physically, but they must die physically. Romans 6:7; 1 Corinthians 15:35-36
All of God's people are...
John 4:53 "So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, 'Your son lives.' And he himself believed, and his whole household."
Acts 2:38-39 "Then Peter said to them, 'Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins...
Thanks, this is the kind of thing I'm looking for.
I'm really interested in sort of the Qur'an vs the ahadith, to put it crudely, because the one seems much older than the other and I'm interested in the traditions brought forward in the Qur'an and how the ahadith added to them - so what were...
Abraham was considered a 'hanif', a term with disputed meaning (no time to write more so lengthy quote will have to do :sleeping:, attached another article too that discusses disputed meanings)
Jewish sources, like the Babylonian Talmud, Josephus (d. ca. 100 CE), Jubilees, and Christian sources...
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According to the explained Covenantal Theology of the New Testament, the practice of circumcision, isn't from the Abraamic Covenant
So,
Galatians 2:3-5
Galatians 2:21
[The law cannot bring righteousness
Galatians3:6-7
[Abraam equated with faith, not law
Galatians 3:8
[The nations, context...
I'm not going to look up your flood of verses. If you had really wanted me to read them, you would have quoted them, and you probably would have picked fewer but more pointed choices.
Here are my points.
Jesus was born a Jew, the son of a Jewish mother. That means he would have followed the...
Completely wrong. Do you even know the general stories in the Bible? The 'added' laws were what we know of as the 'Mosaic laws', generally. Not the Covenant unto Abraham.
Well seeing that you only go about cherry picking verses.
Have it ever occurred to you to read the whole chapter to find out for sure what the subject and article is about first.
But seeing you only pick out certain verses to try and support what your trying to say doesn't work.
As for...