then you are not an Orthodox Christian...and read James 3:17-20....it makes for good reading and points out that you are wrong.
then you are not an Orthodox Christian...and read James 3:17-20....it makes for good reading and points out that you are wrong.
I never said I was Orthodox.
James 2 says that those who say they believe but show no change in their lives by living out their faith in good works are not "justified" in their claim of "true" Faith.
In his epistle, James makes the statement “For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also” (James 2:26). Faith without works is dead faith because the lack of works reveals an unchanged life or a spiritually dead heart. There are many Scriptures that make it very clear that true saving faith will result in a transformed life which is demonstrated by the “works” we do. How we live reveals what we believe and whether the faith we profess to have is a living faith.
James 2:14-26 is sometimes taken out of context in an attempt to create a works-based system of righteousness, but that is contrary to many other Scriptures.
James is not saying that our works make us righteous before God, but instead he is making it clear that real saving faith is demonstrated by good works. Works are not the cause of salvation; works are the evidence of salvation. The person who claims to be a Christian but lives in willful disobedience to Christ with a life that shows no works has a false or dead faith and is not saved. James is clearly making a contrast between two different types of faith—truth faith that saves and false faith that is dead. Read more: http://www.gotquestions.org/faith-without-works-dead.html