[fortes fortuna juvat]

It’s called the Socratic method, genius.
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Before the took the hemlock he said that “to know is to know that you know nothing.” All Bible-only zealots who claim to know it all should therefore take heed!

So answer the question. What are YOU doing to earn eternal life?
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I follow St. Paul’s example and try to live a Christlike life to avoid being rejected (1Cor9). I do this by practicing the Beatitudes as taught in Matthew 5, and by following the myriad other examples throughout the Scriptures which teach us how to live as God wishes us to live. And of course I do so because James, in his INSPIRED Epistle (which clearly needs no “interpretation” by the Mad Monk or any of his deluded followers) taught all Christians that faith without works is DEAD!

[MHGinTN]

Arrogant, haughty, self aggrandizing ... a typical Catholic Apologist post.

[infool7]

Apparently YOPIOS is all well and good

as long as it doesn’t remotely

resemble Cathothism.

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[Luircin]

“Be ye perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect,” Jesus says.

So you’re telling me that you’re trying and failing to do the absolute minimum that God commands you to do, and you think that earns you salvation?

[MHGinTN]

Try the following regarding James: IF one claims to be born again, claims to be faithing in Jesus BUT there are no changes in life behavior (the works part for arrogant Catholics striving to obtain eternal life), that one's pretend faith is dead. FAITH is an action of the will, directed by the spirit. If the spirit in you is dead, though you make great pretend at righteousness, the faith is dead. ONLY GOD can make the dead human spirit alive, with the seal of His Spirit upon the human spirit.

Why? How can this describe what James is trying to convey? ... well, it is GOD Who is in the faither, both to will and to do of HIS good pleasure; so, if there is no evidence of HIM workling to raise up the child of God in the way that they should go, then it is not GOD bringing forth the 'works of righteousness' thus it is the dust of a still dead spirit in evidence striving to produce faked righteousness. That kind of faithing sometimes spews froth as haughty arrogance..

When one is born from above, it is GOD, not your works or fealty to a sacramental trek, it is GOD WHO imputes the righteousness of Christ to the newborn member in the Body of Christ. Your paganized religion of Catholicism has the adherents believing the Catholic Church is infusing (like a slow drip of an IV) you with sufficient righteousness to deserve eternal life with God.

God created the human spirit as a thing with eternal existence. Alive or dead, your spirit is eternal, but HE honors your free will by applying The Righteousness of Christ to ONLY the souls who believe in and trust Christ alone for their deliverance from their dead spirit condition inherited from Adam.

[Elsie]

...try to live a Christlike life to avoid being rejected (1Cor9). I do this by practicing the Beatitudes as taught in Matthew 5, and by following the myriad other examples throughout the Scriptures which teach us how to live as God wishes us to live.

This sounds like your works are without faith.

[Elsie]

... James, in his INSPIRED Epistle (which clearly needs no “interpretation” by the Mad Monk or any of his deluded followers) taught all Christians that faith without works is DEAD!

James; is that the same fella that wrote, "Call no man father."?

Oh; no; that was JESUS speaking.

My bad.