[the_doc]

According to Romans 3:28, Sola Fide is by no means "bunk."

The Apostle Paul explicitly states in Romans 3:28 that a man is justified before God apart from works of the Law.

The Apostle James was warning about the kind of assensus which masquerades as faith. Calvin resolved The Epistle of James and the Epistle to the Romans in a very simple statement. He pointed out that man is justified by faith alone, but the faith that really justifies is never alone. This explains both the practical verses of James and the high doctrine of Paul. And this standard Protestant explanation is evidently the only sensible way to resolve the tension.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

You are probably reading from a Protestant Bible and thus are including what Luther added to Romans 3:28, which is the word "alone". If you can read Latin, you'll see that it is not included in the Vulgate, but if not, you can see that it isn't in the English translation of the Vulgate; Douay-Rheims. The Epistle Of St. Paul The Apostle To The Romans 3:28 "For we account a man to be justified by faith, without the works of the law." This is just one example of why Luther's doctrines are indeed bunk. He choose to edit Sacred Scripture to his liking, which was/is a violation of Sacred Scripture; The Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle 22:19. This doesn't even take into account his rejection of the Apocrypha. Imagine if Bill and Hill took the Bill of Rights and edited it to their liking. That's what Luther did with the Bible.

[Campion]

apart from works of the Law

"For is God the God of the Jews only?"

St. Paul tells you exactly what "works of the Law" means in this passage: it's the ceremonial Law of the Sinai Covenant, most especially circumcision.

The Holy Spirit is incapable of self-contradiction. Any theology which dismisses James 2 by setting Romans or Galatians up in contradiction to it is a false theology. Unless, of course, you're prepared to argue, as Luther did, that James is not Scripture at all.