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Poly ate my reply from James 2:16-24
If one is Protestant, and believes that Scripture is the primary authority, than how do you work with this?
Faith and Deeds
What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.”
Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do.
You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that–and shudder.
You foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? Was not our ancestor Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness," and he was called God's friend. You see that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone.
In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction? As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
Martin Luther considered James to be an epistle of straw, because he believed, and he changed Romans, so that it read that man is saved by grace through faith alone, or sola Fidae.
Now, it is true that many Protestants in the past have emulated Luther, but the fact remains that this is a distortion of the bible. Sola Fidae is not scriptural, rather what is scriptural is the section of the Catholic catechism that I cited you.
Man is saved by the grace of the God through faith in Jesus Christ, so that Christ, in his mercy, grants us the ability to perservere in the virtues.
Faith and works, for faith without works is dead, whereas works without faith are useless.
If one is Protestant, and believes that Scripture is the primary authority, than how do you work with this?
Faith and Deeds
What good is it, my brothers, if a man claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save him? Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, "Go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed," but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.”
Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by what I do.
You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that–and shudder.
You foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? Was not our ancestor Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness," and he was called God's friend. You see that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone.
In the same way, was not even Rahab the prostitute considered righteous for what she did when she gave lodging to the spies and sent them off in a different direction? As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
Martin Luther considered James to be an epistle of straw, because he believed, and he changed Romans, so that it read that man is saved by grace through faith alone, or sola Fidae.
Now, it is true that many Protestants in the past have emulated Luther, but the fact remains that this is a distortion of the bible. Sola Fidae is not scriptural, rather what is scriptural is the section of the Catholic catechism that I cited you.
Man is saved by the grace of the God through faith in Jesus Christ, so that Christ, in his mercy, grants us the ability to perservere in the virtues.
Faith and works, for faith without works is dead, whereas works without faith are useless.
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