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Yes, the pattern you're noticing but not quite seeing clearly is that belief and faith are the same word in Greek. Belief without good works is dead. Faith without good works is dead. Both faith and belief, being the same thing in holy scriptures, are dead without good works. It is the good...
The passage reads thus:
James 2:14 DRB What shall it profit, my brethren, if a man say he hath faith, but hath not works? Shall faith be able to save him?
In the KJV it says:
James 2:14 KJV What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him...
...Here's what triggered me to question the foundations on which "baptism is a symbol in which God does not act" doctrines and practices are based:
"Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God." (John 3:5)
"Repent...
"Real faith" is like the "No true Scotsman" thing. Obviously if a person contends that "faith alone" saves then they need to invent "true faith" and its opposite "false faith" to maintain their doctrine. Saint James doesn't say anything about "true faith" or "false faith" he just teaches about...
James 2:14 What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
Shall faith be able to save him? He now comes to one of the chief points of this epistle, to show against the disciple of Simon Magus, the magician, that faith alone will not...
Did you mention to MennoSota that John preached a message ....
Matthew 3:1-3 In those days John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness of Judea, proclaiming, 2 'Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.' 3 This is the one of whom the prophet Isaiah spoke when he said, 'The voice of one...
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I admire your optimism ....
Imagine expecting to convince a credobaptist chap that a household includes children??!!!
Aint ever going to happen
honest
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It is interesting that a denomination of Christians named Baptist has the view of baptism that they do.
But creating two baptisms one in water and another that is spiritual looks more like a doctrine from Pentecostal denominations.
Hebrews 6:1-12 Let us leave behind us then all the elementary teaching about Christ and go on to its completion, without going over the fundamental doctrines again: the turning away from dead actions, faith in God, 2 the teaching about baptisms and the laying -- on of hands, about the...
Since the Lord, Jesus Christ, died for the sins of the whole world as the holy scriptures say:
1 John 2:1-6 My little children, I am writing this to you so that you may not sin; but if any one does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous; 2 and he is the expiation...
Holy scripture tells us that there is one baptism not several.
Ephesians 4:1-6 1 I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live worthily of the calling with which you have been called, 2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, 3 making...