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"So much for Protestant Sola Fide theological sleaze."

You consider a quote from Jesus "Protestant Sola Fide theological sleaze"?

Dear Dutchboy88, you seem to have misread the intent of this juxtaposition. "You are to be perfect" is something Christ did say. "Sola Fide" is something Christ didn't say.

The only place the phrase "Faith Alone" appears in the Bible is as follows:

"You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone." (James 2:24)

It's not, by the way,that I think this age-old controversy can be settled by slinging one-liners back and forth, or shouting them louder and louder. I think, rather that different kinds of "faith" have to be distinguished. James said that a "living" faith is detected by the presence of works;without that, James says, it is a "dead faith."

And Paul himself says that if you have faith so great as to move mountains, but have not love, you are nothing.

So these things go together. It seems to me fruitless to dispute about "Which blade of the scissors is more important, the top blade or the bottom blade?" - "Which is more important: inhaling or exhaling?"

Isn't love the main thing? Didn't Jesus say the whole Law and the entirety of the Prophets depend on this? Isn't God, by His very nature, Love?

If we would just partake of this great Goodness, partake of His nature more and more!

Read what Mrs. Don-o, in her infinite patience, explained in #56. Also read the Holy Scripture every once in a while if you are interested in authentic Christianity.