[MHGinTN]

"Catholics merely point out that salvation can be lost if your faith does not bear fruit." Because Catholicism hasn't a clue that IT IS GOD WHO IS IN YOU, TO WILL AND TO DO OF HIS GOOD PLEASURE. If you see ANY work as necessary to fulfill or complete or fashion your Justification, then you have missed the most vital start of the New Covenant. Sanctification, on the other hand, is to be worked out with fear and trembling, for God is in you, to raise you up in the Way that you should go as a member in Jesus's family, and God does not withhold the rod to ruin the new born, He chastens His own.

[ADSUM]

The only time you actually do see the words faith and alone together in a sentence is in James 2:24, where James says, “See how a person is justified by works and not by faith alone”. (James 2:24)

Why is this important? In the story about Judgment Day, (Matthew 25:31-46) where Jesus separates the sheep from the goats, the only questions that Jesus asks the multitude concern works:

1. Did you feed the hungry?

2. Did you clothe the naked?

3. Did you give a drink to the thirsty, etc.

If they answered “no” to these works in Matthew 25, then Jesus said that they were going to hell. Nowhere does Jesus ask, “Did you accept me as your personal Lord and Savior?” So, you can infer from all of this that just confessing with your lips that Jesus is your personal Lord and Savior is NOT ENOUGH (deathbed conversions are a different standard), although it is a great start on your salvation journey!!

The Book of James, in the Bible, says that your faith must be justified by works (James 2:24), which is much different from what Paul says in Galatians 2:16 about “We may be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the works of the law