[metmom]

But didn’t James say faith without works is dead?

Adding works to intellectual assent is not going to save anyone.

Saving faith is one that produces works as the natural outflow of the work of the Holy Spirit in the person's life.

[fortes fortuna juvat]

Adding works to intellectual assent is not going to save anyone.

Saving faith is one that produces works as the natural outflow of the work of the Holy Spirit in the person’s life.
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Both of these statement are plausible in my view EXCEPT that the latter one appears to overlook the role of the will which must voluntarily and consciously conform to the work of the Spirit. Otherwise the works produced have no human attribution at all and the human person is reduced to the level of an automaton, hardly what God intends.