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To: SMEDLEYBUTLER
if scriptures said that you are saved "through faith, and not by works." and the Roman Catholic church said you are saved through faith + works, what would you do? would you assume that scripture is wrong, or the Roman Catholic church has become so corrupt that they can't teach properly anymore? this is a very valid question because this is the case that we have today. read Eph 2:8 to find what scripture says, and read the Roman catechism to find out what your church says. they both can't be right, so which one is wrong?
82 posted on 04/06/2002 8:23:29 PM PST by pro-life
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To: pro-life
Your interpretations are wrong, that is all.

James2: [14] What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him? [15] If a brother or sister is ill-clad and in lack of daily food, [16] and one of you says to them, "Go in peace, be warmed and filled," without giving them the things needed for the body, what does it profit? [17] So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead. [18] But some one will say, "You have faith and I have works." Show me your faith apart from your works, and I by my works will show you my faith. [19] You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe -- and shudder. [20] Do you want to be shown, you shallow man, that faith apart from works is barren? [21] Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar? [22] You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by works, [23] and the scripture was fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness"; and he was called the friend of God. [24] You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone. [25] And in the same way was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? [26] For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead.

83 posted on 04/06/2002 8:33:34 PM PST by Brian Kopp DPM
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To: pro-life
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84 posted on 04/06/2002 9:55:25 PM PST by tiki
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