Are you now without sin? Are you not still a sinner, each and every day? Where's the line over which one can allegedly step to allegedly lose salvation? Do you know where it is? There seems to be lots of people out there who think THEY know where it is, but I can't get them to define it.
To say that ALL the epistles allegedly written to us all, that is not at all the case, and deeper study of scripture bears this out.
You cannot be saved by your works, nor can anyone maintain salvation by works. James wrote to those who were under the Kingdom Gospel. That gospel is no longer over us today. To say that it is over us today is to also claim that your sins were remitted by way of water baptism as was preached by Peter in Acts 2. That is NOT what we are under today. Believing otherwise is to believe another gospel that was not written TO us.
That is not to say that Peter should be accursed, for he spoke the truth that pertained to Israel at that time. It was TO THEM.
Paul, THE apostle to the Gentiles and the mystery given to him that remained hidden in God until revealed to Paul, and the Gospel given only to him and no other man until him, THAT is what is TO us today.
Going back under the works-based gospel will not obtain salvation for anyone today.
MM
