[Iscool]

I liked what I read, but I just am not convinced they MEAN what you say they do.

I didn't say what it means...What do those verses mean to you???

[rzman21]

I already said. Read the passages from the Church Fathers that I posted. That’s what they mean to me.

Scriptural verses must be understood in the light of their contradictory verses on an equal playing field.

Romans 3 doesn’t take priority over Romans 2 or James 2 for that matter.

I see a distinct Gnostic dualism in the false Protestant opposition of faith and keeping the commandments.

What matters is the heart of the individual and why they do works. Self-righteous works are dead works and are fruits of a dead faith.

So what makes a living faith versus a dead one? Answer that.