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    Justification - Part 2

    Every scripture is a toughie if one's theology comes first and the verse must be made to fit it.
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    iBot Poll: What Could You Live Without?

    Yeah, I can do without them too. Coffee is horrible without whisky. Whisky is not especially tasty. But combined they make a good drink :)
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    Justification - Part 2

    I suspect that everybody I know does sin every day, maybe every hour, perhaps ever minute ... but maybe not every second. Is it a sin to sleep? I hope not! :)
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    iBot Poll: What Could You Live Without?

    I can do without beer too but it wasn't one of the options. alas
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    Justification - Part 2

    It is significant that "repent and believe the gospel" involves two things that continue throughout earthly life. Repenting lasts as long as one has something to repent about and believing lasts as long as belief (without sight because seeing is knowing rather than believing according to saint...
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    Justification - Part 2

    I think that way it works for MennoSota is that he thinks his salvation is inextricably linked to his assurance of salvation and that means he is Justified by faith alone because he is elect. And he is elect because of God's inscrutable predestining will which is revealed in a...
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    Justification - Part 2

    I do not know what alchemy is at work but somehow when you or I write "a man is justified by works and not by faith alone" some read it as saying "a man is justified by works alone apart from faith" and when you or I say "the just shall live by faith" it is transmuted into "those who work for...
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    Supreme Court backs Christian baker

    The decision is good for the cake maker. But it leaves the matter undecided for anybody and everybody else.
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    When is our name written in the book of life?

    The Masoretes wrote nothing of the new testament.
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    Justification - Part 2

    Yes, that is about right; I am not confident that other protestants in CH agree with your formulation. I also think that it God saves rather than saved. But from God's perspective "saved" is as good as "saves" since he knows the end from the beginning.
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    Justification - Part 2

    The passage says 1 You were dead, through the faults and sins. 2 Once, you lived through them, according to this world, and followed the Sovereign Ruler who reigns between heaven and earth, and who goes on working, in those who resist the faith. 3 All of us belonged to them, at one time, and...
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    Justification - Part 2

    It is not faith that produces works it is grace that produces both faith and works and it is by grace that the faithful are saved.
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    Justification - Part 2

    The holy scriptures say a man is justified by works and not by faith alone and that is said after a lengthy discussion about why faith that does no works is dead. The truth is that faith without works is dead, it does not really exist as the kind of faith that saint Paul discusses in his letters.
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    Justification - Part 2

    The thread is about Justification and it was Martin Luther who decided that "the just shall live by faith alone". Even the "reformation" catch cry "sola fide" is inspired by Martin Luther's steadfast rejection of what saint James says in his letter; specifically, that "a man is justified by...
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    iBot Poll: What Could You Live Without?

    :cheer::cheer::cheer:
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    Justification - Part 2

    The letter of saint James was in the canon for more than a thousand years before Martin Luther was born. It was Martin Luther who disliked the letter because it says So you see, a person is justified by works, and not by faith alone. The Epistle was first explicitly referred to and quoted by...
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    Justification - Part 2

    There's no mention of adoption in the parable of the unwilling son. Matthew 21:28-31 "What is your opinion? A man had two sons. He came to the first and said, 'Son, go out and work in the vineyard today.' He said in reply, 'I will not,' but afterwards he changed his mind and went. The man came...
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    Justification - Part 2

    Yes, that's a similar and related idea. Another related idea is told in the parable of the unwilling son.
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    Justification - Part 2

    I included the context last time I quoted the passages so I believed you'd remember it since I did. But to help with the discussion I'll include the context again. James 2:14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, to profess faith, without showing works? Such faith has no power to save you...
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    Justification - Part 2

    Remembering that faith and belief are both translations of Pistis in Greek what you've written amounts to saying "We are Justified by God, through belief in the life, death, and resurrection of His Son. This "belief" is wholly a work of God in our hearts, which enables the sinner to "repent and...
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