[PieterCasparzen]

6 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?

Note the phrase - "if someone says he has faith".

My earlier post had a link to the Matthew Henry commentary, which discusses this verse.

The commentary on James 2 is, IMHO, a good synopsis of the generally accepted Reformed viewpoint, was written around 1800, by theologians who finished Henry's work after his death.

I think you'll find that you agree with those positions.

One must take care to not accidentally think of verse referenced above as:

"if someone has faith but does not have works"

when it is actually

"if someone says he has faith but does not have works"

because, of course, their respective implications are completely different.

[Morgana]

Note the phrase - “if someone says he has faith”.

Yea you have just proved that talk is cheap. Actions prove louder than words.