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    Justification

    You and I engage it. But Martin Luther ran from it calling saint James' letter "an epistle of straw" because it directly contradicted Martin Luther's theology.
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    Justification

    Generally that is correct. One is baptised into Christ - specifically into his death burial and resurrection - and thus set free from the rule of sin in life.
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    Justification

    Doing good is Christ's work done in his power by his Spirit; call it self-righteous if you like. Call it any name that pleases you. The truth is that it is what the holy scriptures call the faithful to do. It is God's work and it is God-righteous.
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    Justification

    Good works are not works of the Law [of Moses]. Good works are helping widows in their distress, clothing the poor, preaching the gospel, feeding the hungry. Surely you know this. And if you do not then you do now.
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    Justification

    Let's be "self righteous" together :disgonbegood:
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    Justification

    Amen. A man is justified by works and not by faith alone. It really is not hard to understand is it? Yet some will not learn from holy scripture even though they loudly proclaim that their stand is on "scripture alone". It is so odd to hear "sola scriptura" uttered by people who do not really...
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    Could it all be a fraud?

    There is no 66 book bible. That is an eviscerated bible - a book with hundreds of pages cut out and thrown aside by wicked men with wicked intent to self-promote and to self-glorify by creating a theology of self-centred-religiosity. But having said that, read the accounts in Maccabees and see...
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    Justification

    The good works that Christians do are given to them by God for them to do. Ephesians 2:10. If that bothers you, tough. It's just a fact. Ephesians 2:7 In showing us such kindness, in Christ Jesus, God willed to reveal, and unfold in the coming ages, the extraordinary riches of his grace. 8 By...
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    Justification

    Grace is grace. It does not have versions. It is God's gift and comes in many forms. The gifts described in First Corinthians chapters 12 through 14 are "grace gifts" in Greek. The wisdom that the letter of James says is from God is a grace given by God. Salvation is God's gift, a grace, given...
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    Justification

    You know that is not true because every time it is written MennoSota objects to it and changes "good works" to "your own works" as if any human beings can do anything apart from God's grace. It looks like contradiction for its own sake. There can be no agreement when even the most basic concept...
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    Justification

    It isn't faith without works and it isn't good without love. Without faith working in love it is impossible to please God.
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    Justification

    Doing good is not sad and never will be sad. The wicked will go into eternal punishment; but the righteous, to eternal life. A person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
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    Justification

    Living the faith without self delusions is not sad.
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    Justification

    The passage in Isaiah is not about lepers it is about Israel repenting for their wickedness. So your attempt to make Isaiah's prayer into a story about lepers is misrepresenting what the prophet wrote. Isaiah 64:1 As when fire sets brushwood ablaze and causes water to boil, make the nations know...
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    Justification

    Yes. Yes, the difference is sufficient to say that he did remember the passage incorrectly. He was in error regarding what the passage says.
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    Justification

    Your post is assuming that baptism is a human activity that is self-empowered and that's absurd. Your theology is so deeply flawed so seriously in error that you appear to think that baptism is not in itself a grace from God. But it is. Baptism is a gift from God by means of which he gives grace...
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    Justification

    Grace is given even to the disobedient because life and breath are God's gift given as a grace. In fact the rain and the sunshine that make it possible for foods to be grown are given by God's grace and the rain and sunshine fall on the just and the unjust alike. So yes you are right to say that...
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    Justification

    Say whatever you like but if you do not take up your cross and follow Jesus then what is said is just words and following Jesus needs more than words. James 1:22 Be doers of the word, and not just hearers, lest you deceive yourselves. 23 The hearer, who does not become a doer, is like that one...
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    Justification

    It is true that I believe what the holy scriptures teach; namely that God gives life, breath, and all things by grace and that God having given those things calls all people everywhere to repent and believe the gospel. Repentance is a work and so too is living faith a work. Jesus said to the...
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    Justification

    If it were all done for her, as sister Lamm claims, then what need is there for faith and what need for repentance. Her claim is that it is all finished independent of her faith and her repentance so those things (faith and repentance) are just symbols with no grace attached just like...
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