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Saved folks work for God because they are saved not to be saved.according to scripture you cannot earn your salvation, and if you could earn your salvation why was Jesus crucified ?
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Eph 2:8 - For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

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Eph 2:9 - Not of works, lest any manshould boast.
 
You mean like when Christians say that a person is justified by faith alone and not by works and scripture says that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone?

A person is declared righteous by God by faith alone and not by works and scripture says that a person is vindicated to others by works and not by faith alone

so when will you tell us what works along with faith are required to be initial justification?


Cyril of Alexandria, a native Greek speaker, on the issue of the meaning of the term edikaiōthē (translated “justified” in Ancient Christian Commentary on the Scripture, New Testament VI), clearly explains that he believes that it refers to vindication, and not literal justification:

Clement
, who writes at a time contemporaneous enough with James’ to have a thorough understanding of edikaiōthē and the doctrine of the Apostles that is surrounding it. Citing James 2:23, and likely having the whole section in mind when exegeting Hebrews 11, he writes that Abraham proved his faithfulness in the performance faithful acts:
Not only does Clement endorse the view that Abraham was vindicated by his sacrifice of Isaac, as he was found faithful in our sight because of it, he linguistically uses the term “justified” to mean “vindicated” elsewhere in the letter.

the Greek language had no other word that meant vindication in the present tense

Cyprian of Carthage writes:
“men are tried by God for this purpose, that they may be proved.”

A later Latin writer, Hilary of Poitiers,
Abraham had proved, by the sacrifice of his son,
 
Saved folks work for God because they are saved not to be saved.according to scripture you cannot earn your salvation, and if you could earn your salvation why was Jesus crucified ?
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Eph 2:8 - For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

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Eph 2:9 - Not of works, lest any manshould boast.
Dingaling is still waving its two or three scriptures about like magic amulets or holy water, expecting the non-Catholics to cower in fear or to run away in terrified confusion. He has rejected the Holy Spirit of Truth for "a pocketful of mumbles."

--Rich
"Esse quam videri"
 
Dingaling is still waving its two or three scriptures about like magic amulets or holy water, expecting the non-Catholics to cower in fear or to run away in terrified confusion. He has rejected the Holy Spirit of Truth for "a pocketful of mumbles."

--Rich
"Esse quam videri"
It’s amazing how much scripture RC’s have to yank out of context and then ignore other scriptures to become Mary worshippers.
 
The Pope has been given authority. What did Jesus teach his disciples about those holding the position of authority?
that they were in error because they did not know the Scriptures
that they would recognize The Truth if it were standing in front of them
 
You mean like when Christians say that a person is justified by faith alone

Rom. 3:28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

Rom. 3:30
Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

Rom. 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

Gal. 2:16 Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Gal. 3:8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

Gal. 3:11 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

Gal. 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

scripture says that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone?

James 2 is about the vindication of someone CLAIMING to have faith, the works which are produced there from vindicate the claim of having faith as true. Those works don't "make righteous" the believer, only the faith does that.

I've exegeted that passage very thoroughly here:


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“Whosoever will candidly consider each particular, will recognize the greatness of the gifts which were given by him. For from him have sprung the priests and all the Levites who minister at the altar of God. From him also [was descended] our Lord Jesus Christ according to the flesh. From him [arose] kings, princes, and rulers of the race of Judah. Nor are his other tribes in small glory, inasmuch as God had promised, ‘Thy seed shall be as the stars of heaven.’ All these, therefore, were highly honored, and made great, not for their own sake, or for their own works, or for the righteousness which they wrought, but through the operation of His will. And we, too, being called by His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified by ourselves, nor by our own wisdom, or understanding, or godliness, or works we have have wrought in holiness of heart, but by that faith through which, from the beginning, Almighty God has justified all men; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.”
- Clement, First Epistle to the Corinthians, Ch. 32 (AD 99)

“Every mystery which is enacted by our Lord Jesus Christ asks only for faith. The mystery was enacted at that time for our sake and aimed at our resurrection and liberation, should we have faith in the mystery of Christ and in Christ.”
- Marius Victorinus, Epistle to the Galatians,1.3.7 (AD 356)

“Let him who boasts boast in the Lord, that Christ has been made by God for us in righteousness, wisdom, justification, redemption. This is perfect and pure boasting in God, when one is not proud on account of his own righteousness but knows that he is indeed unworthy of the true righteousness and is (or has been) justified solely by faith in Christ.”
- Basil of Caesarea, Homilia XX, Homilia De Humilitate (AD 379)

“God has decreed that a person who believes in Christ can be saved without works. By faith alone he receives the forgiveness of sins.”
- Ambrosiaster, on 1 Cor 1:14b (AD 384)

“They are justified freely because they have not done anything nor given anything in return, but by faith alone they have been made holy by the gift of God.”
- Ambrosiaster, on Rom. 3:24 (AD 384)

“The patriarch Abraham himself before receiving circumcision had been declared righteous on the score of faith alone; before circumcision, the text says, Abraham believed God, and credit for it brought him to righteousness.”
- Chrysostom, Homilies on Genesis, 27.7 (AD 407)

“See he calls the faith also a law delighting to keep to the names, and so allay the seeming novelty. But what is the ‘law of faith’? It is, being saved by grace. Here he shows God’s power, in that He has not only saved, but has even justified, and led them to boasting, and this too without needing works, but looking for faith only.”
- Chrysostom, Homilies on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans, Homily 7, vs. 27 (AD 407)

For a person who had no works, to be justified by faith, was nothing unlikely. But for a person richly adorned with good deeds, not to be made just from hence, but from faith, this is the thing to cause wonder, and to set the power of faith in a strong light.”
- Chrysostom, Homilies on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans, Homily 8, Rom. 4:1-2 (AD 407)

“God justifies by faith alone” (“Deus ex sola fide justificat”)
- Jerome, Epestolam Ad Romanos, Caput X, v.3 (AD 420)

“What Paul meant was that no one obtains the gift of justification on the basis of merits derived from works performed beforehand, but they gift of justification comes only from faith.”
- Bede, Cited from the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ed. Gerald Bray), NT, vol. 11, p. 31.(AD 735)

"But in addition that you might believe also this, that sins are given to you individually, this is the testimony, which the Holy Spirit bestows in your heart, saying, Your sins are forgiven by you. For the Apostle thinks thus, that man is gratuitously justified through faith."
- Bernard of Clairvaux , First Sermon on the Annunciation (AD 1153)

“Therefore the hope of justification is not found in them [the moral and ceremonial requirements of the law], but in faith alone.”
- Thomas Aquinas, Expositio in Ep. I ad Timotheum cap. 1, lect. 3 (AD 1274)
 
Dingaling is still waving its two or three scriptures about like magic amulets or holy water, expecting the non-Catholics to cower in fear or to run away in terrified confusion. He has rejected the Holy Spirit of Truth for "a pocketful of mumbles."

--Rich
"Esse quam videri"
Can you show us where the Holy Spirit of Truth said that a person is justified by faith alone and not by works? Thanks.
 
I am sorry, but Christians don't agree on certain issues such as the bread and wine. Catholics say it is the body and blood of Christ, the nCCs say that it is not. Scripture, however, says that it is.
Yep but the RCC is a proven evil tree and it lies therefore it cannot be trusted. God's word can be trusted. You interpretation has Jesus telling the apostles to break the clear commandments, it ignores Paul saying it is a memorial and all the other points I raised. But no surprise as the RCC misuses scripture and does not look at scripture as a whole.
 
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