[RaceBannon]

"The person who did that excercise would have a 100% biblical answer that would not exactly lead him to the protestant doctrine of sola fidelis. "

Since this passage has nothing to do with Salvation, you would be correct. It has to do with showing fruit of Salvation, not how to get salvation.




(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?

(James 2:15 KJV) If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,

(James 2:16 KJV) And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?

(James 2:17 KJV) Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

[dangus]

>>Since this passage has nothing to do with Salvation,

This passage has nothing to do with salvation? Outrageous! The very topic is salvation! James asks, "Can his faith save him?" And his answer: No, if faith is not accompanied by works, it is dead. That is, it has no life within it. "Even so, faith, if it has not works, being alone, is dead."

How can this be? One has to look beyond that context to realize that if one's faith is *correct,* works will follow faith. (If I have faith that Woody Allen is God, works will not follow.)

Don't feel bad. The book of James threw Martin Luther so badly that he declared it non-canonical, and had it stripped out of his bible. (I bet that scene isn't in the movie!)