Why?
To find out that works ACCOMPANY Salvation?
I already know that.
What James does NOT say is that works are ESSENTIAL for Salvation.
“What James does NOT say is that works are ESSENTIAL for Salvation.”
Oh? James first asks, “What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and hav enot works? can faith save him?
He then gives a lengthy discourse, answering in the negative. James says that Abraham was “justified by works,” and that faith is “made perfect” by works, and that “by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.” It also says that faith is “dead” without works.
Seems pretty plain to me.