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To: annalex
Show me. A link to your "proof" will do, or give me the verses again.

Nope. I've wasted too much time doing so already, and I have learned that it will not make any difference. But in case there are lurkers who are genuinely interested about what the Bible says about faith saving us, I'll give but a few of my personal favorites:

Acts 15:8-9
God, who knows the heart, showed that he accepted them by giving the Holy Spirit to them, just as he did to us. He did not discriminate between us and them, for he purified their hearts by faith.

Acts 26:18
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

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

There you have it, purified, sanctified, justified by FAITH in Christ!

5,341 posted on 12/13/2010 11:33:27 PM PST by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to him.)
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To: boatbums
There you have it, purified, sanctified, justified by FAITH in Christ!

But that is not the same as "faith alone". To have faith in Christ must include believing in what he tells you to DO. Sanctity, for example, is what you do. You read "your faith saved you" and you understand "so faith without works saved me". You understand wrong.

5,690 posted on 12/21/2010 6:05:08 PM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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