[SoothingDave]

Jas 2:24 You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

Are you claiming that James 2 refutes faith alone??

That's what it says. It's not a "claim" at all.

[Turtlepower]

Read what catholic scholar Thomas Leahy had to say about James 2:24

“As is clear from context, this does not mean that genuine faith is insufficient for justification, but that faith unaccompanied by works is not genuine” [Thomas W. Leahy, S.J. in Raymond Edward Brown, Joseph A. Fitzmeyer and Roland Edmund Murphy, The Jerome Biblical Commentary, (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1968), in loc.].