Ferris Bueller
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So the word of God doesn't really mean what it says, then, right?There arenb't any - for the one who understands God's Word.
That's a red flag that you're dealing with a false doctrine, folks.
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So the word of God doesn't really mean what it says, then, right?There arenb't any - for the one who understands God's Word.
We know works complete, or fill up, faith. What is being resisted is the false teaching that works make you righteous before God. If you could make yourself righteous by doing works then Christ died for nothing (Galatians 2:21). You can only be made righteous in God's sight by having your unrighteousness removed through forgiveness. That's what makes justification a free gift. But if justification is granted upon the satisfactory completion of righteous work then justification is no longer a reward of grace but a reward of debt owed to you.They ALL point to the fact that works COMPLETE faith.
Except for the 'holy mother church' garbage these are correct examples of submission to authority. But none of these examples of submission will make you righteous. Only having your sin wiped away through faith in God's forgiveness does that. That is the righteousness that comes from God through faith. Not the righteousness you give to God through your doings.
So how does completing faith by doing righteous work MAKE you righteous?GOD pproduced those works for you to do as a completion OF fauth, not as a result FROM it
This 'holy mother' stuff is just junk.holy mother church gal 4:26
Sorry my friend, I listen to jesus
I also listen to John and Paul, they are the church or have you forgotten that
We have the words of the Apostles in the Bible. We don't need your Catholic priesthood.Obeying the apostles and the church is obeying Christ!
Rejecting the apostles and the church is rejecting Christ!
Everybody knows this. What you don't understand is this has nothing to do with faith all by itself making you righteous. Faith alone is James' argument and means exactly what James says he means by it. Righteousness apart from works is Paul's argument and it means exactly what Paul says it means, and it doesn't mean the same thing as James' faith alone argument.Phil 1:29 not called to faith alone, but to suffer for Christ
We don't care about the council of Trent.If anyone says you can be justified by faith alone: let him be Anathema!
holy apostolic council of Trent:
By the order of the apostles of Jesus Christ with the authority of Christ!
Bound on earth bound in heaven!
Matt 16:18-19 Matt 18:18
God did not carry me to the baptismalAnd I've ALREADY shjown you that YOU didn't "produuce" anything - GOD pproduced those works for you to do as a completion OF fauth, not as a result FROM it
HE gets the glory for those works. YOU'RE simpoky doing what HE arranged in advance for you to do as the completion of your faith. THAT'S what it means to be "His handiwork" (Eph. 2:10).
yep.Obeying the apostles and the church is obeying Christ!
Rejecting the apostles and the church is rejecting Christ!
Obedience
Romans 5:19
For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
Romans 6:16
Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?
Romans 16:19
For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalf: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil.
Hebrews 5:8
Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered
Phil 1:29 not called to faith alone, but to suffer for Christ
1 Peter 1:2
Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
Yes, really.
None of these verses about obedience say you make yourself righteous by doing righteous things. That would be the very works gospel Paul warns against.
This 'holy mother' stuff is just junk.
I can't stand to hear this crap anymore. It's sickening.
Then YOU are at odds with the Word of God, which explicitly states that Abtraham's faith was COMPETED by his works (James 2:22).God did not carry me to the baptismal
He did not carry me to church to take the eucharist
he did not do my work for me.
It is not a completion of faith. It is a result of it.
WHen you trust your parents, and they ask you to do something, You do not think about it,. You do it, because you trust them.
If you do it just because your looking to get something from them, and not out of trust then your not doing it out of faith.
We have the words of the Apostles in the Bible. We don't need your Catholic priesthood.
Bevcause obedience is ALSO an ingredient of Godly faith.So how does completing faith by doing righteous work MAKE you righteous?
And as James yeaches - what you THINK is faith is NOT - unless you have works to complete oit (James 2:14-26).We know works complete, or fill up, faith. What is being resisted is the false teaching that works make you righteous before God. If you could make yourself righteous by doing works then Christ died for nothing (Galatians 2:21). You can only be made righteous in God's sight by having your unrighteousness removed through forgiveness. That's what makes justification a free gift. But if justification is granted upon the satisfactory completion of righteous work then justification is no longer a reward of grace but a reward of debt owed to you.
WRONG.So the word of God doesn't really mean what it says, then, right?
That's a red flag that you're dealing with a false doctrine, folks.
You love to focus on James 2 yet totally ignore Romans 4.Then YOU are at odds with the Word of God, which explicitly states that Abtraham's faith was COMPETED by his works (James 2:22).
Your analofy about expecting something from my works of faith is nonsense.
God GAVE me those things to do (Eph. 2:10) as part OF my faith.