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How can you say that you do believe works of faith are necessary to be saved? If that's the case then you don't believe a person is saved by faith apart from works, contrary to what Paul says. Tit 3:5 he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved...

I'm aware how many Christians gloss over James' intended meaning as should be clear from the text, but just as Martin Luther had pointed out, such a gloss is not an honest reading of the text. "Although it would be possible to "save" the epistle by a gloss giving a correct explanation of...

I'm also Berean. My site is the "Berean Christian Bible Study Resources" http://www.bcbsr.com which I've been running for the last 20 years. By "Berean" I refer to the attitude reflected among the Bereans in Act 17:11 "Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for...

If a person must work to change their behavior as a requirement for salvation, then it cannot be said that justification is by faith apart from works (Rom 4:6) as Kidron has also pointed out, and it not could it be said that "to him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the...

The apparent contradiction between Paul's view of justification in Romans 4 in contrast to James' view in James 2 led Martin Luther of the Protestant Reformation to say in his introduction to the epistle of James, "I do not regard it as the writing of an apostle, and my reasons follow. In the...