Properly harmonize means agree with scripture (with no contractions) as I already shared with you in post #49.
Works of the Law
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Do you believe a person must believe the sound doctrine of Jesus Christ if they are ever to get to heaven?Good gosh, leave him alone already.
Ok I'm really trying to be patient with you I really am but you people make it difficult. You write this in post #49
"So, James does not teach that we are saved "by" works".
Please pay attention this is the most important of the discussion, where did I claim James said we are saved by works? I copy and pasted your words from post #49 now I'm asking you to copy and paste where I claimed js es ssid we are saved by works. Can you do that?
That is slander. I suggest you post a retraction. Failure to do so will cement my low opinion of you.
I already explained to you in post #49 why James does not teach that we are saved by works. You need to consider the context and you also need to consider what Paul said in Romans 4:2-6. *Hermeneutics.
So you've found some scriptures stating our reward is living in the 3rd heaven??
please tells me where you found them, I have been looking for 50 years and zip.
And what does it say we would do in heaven, without something to do, I get bored fast
You just COMPLETELY ignored what I said. What is it with you people?! What did I ask you in my previous post?
So, you agree with what I shared with you in post #49? The alternative is saved by works.
You can't accurately read and understand what I wrote but I'm supposed to believe you understand words written thousands of years ago. I will try AGAIN
COPY AND PASTE WHERE I CLAIMED JAMES SAID WE ARE SAVED BY WORKS. COPY AND PASTE WHERE I CLAIMED WE ARE SAVED BY WORKS
For some people scripture is closed and they cannot understand. Christ did explain this;
Matthew 13:10–17
“And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.”
Why would I believe you were saying anything otherwise after this sarcastic response below to my post #49?
Do you believe a person must believe the sound doctrine of Jesus Christ if they are ever to get to heaven?
Do you believe picking on another person will please God?
Just believing sound doctrine versus obeying it are two different things.
God wants us to obey it and live it out - not just believe it.
God would never tell His child to pick on another child of His to try to aggravate them. We're supposed to encourage and build each other up - which is not what you were doing toward your brother in Christ.
First "in context" usually leads to someone explaining why the words don't mean what they say. I never claimed we are saved by works. To say that i did is not ignorance it's stupidity. I also never claimed James said we are saved by work and verse 24 says exactly the opposite of that but you people hear the word "works" and you lose all ability to comprehend words.
Our Job from God is to expose the hidden darkness of the who refuse to believe the sound doctrine of Jesus Christ.Do you believe picking on another person will please God?
Just believing sound doctrine versus obeying it are two different things.
God wants us to obey it and live it out - not just believe it.
God would never tell His child to pick on another child of His to try to aggravate them. We're supposed to encourage and build each other up - which is not what you were doing toward your brother in Christ.
I asked you what part the Holy Spirit plays in your life and you did not answer. That's fine if you don't. That's your choice. I see you include how you think He operates in your life, but if He were actually illuminating the scripture to you, it would not be to tell you that works are included with salvation.
Works do come after salvation, when they do, but they are not a part of salvation and they do not keep you saved.
That wasn't what you were doing. You just singled him out to pick on - not to show him the error of his beliefs out of love for God or him.
I don't believe in his false doctrine and other people are already sharing the true teaching through God's word. But you won't ever see me single him out and try to belittle him as you do. Instead we're to pray for him and encourage him toward living out sound doctrine. That's what we're suppose to do.
Galatians 6:1 Brothers and sisters, if someone is caught in a sin, you who live by the Spirit should restore that person gently. But watch yourselves, or you also may be tempted.
No, it is not. That you think it is displays a deep misunderstanding of the gospel and a warped sense of direction in your life.