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To: metmom
James 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

So Heaven now gives out the Golden EBT cards? Free Passes, no work involved? Sounds like a welfare system. The Apostles got it all wrong. Paul compared his daily struggles to running a race. Some of the others got martyred. Sounds like they should have stayed at home and rode the gravy train. Works won't get you into Heaven but are a result of and demonstration of faith. Which of the Ten Commandment "works" does God snicker at?

129 posted on 06/22/2017 6:28:33 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Rehab is for quitters.)
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To: BipolarBob

****sigh...................***

When did I ever say NOT to do good works?

Or that works were NOT important?


131 posted on 06/22/2017 8:25:56 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: BipolarBob; metmom
Which of the Ten Commandment "works" does God snicker at?

I was thinking about this recently. Of the Ten Commandments, eight (8) are negative (Thou shalt not...). Only two (2) are positive (remember the Sabbath day and honor your mother and father). So really "good works" as far as the commandments are concerned are mostly NOT doing bad things rather than doing good things.

173 posted on 06/23/2017 10:23:07 PM PDT by boatbums (The Law is a storm which wrecks your hopes of self-salvation, but washes you upon the Rock of Ages.)
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