Catholicsm and Works Salvation = False Doctrines
When did you realize all Abrahamic religions were extensions of Judaism?
>muh skydaddies
I gave up on god when he gave up on the world
That is an ignorant jewish take. Over 15 million "Jews" favor either the Talmud or kabbalah or both over the Torah. Christianity precedes "judaism".
Catholicsm =/= Christianism
Simply
Based.
nice try but no
For you.
Anyone who read the chapter as a whole knows this. James starts by introducing a situation where a rich and poor man walks into the congregation. The rich man is treated with respect and honor at the expense of the poor who is asked to sit down "under thy footstool".
Because of this, James states right after that the poor are those who are chosen by God showing the stark contrast between the possible actions of the audience and that of God. This also serves to stress that as Christians the audience should not do this and be impartial. Which is why verses 4-6 uses Leviticus 19:15 as a source or intertext. Both share the theme of judgement though in Leviticus 19:15, the point is one should not be partial in judgement which is what James audience had done based on the previous verses.
After this James says,
8If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
9But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
10For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
11For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
12So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
13For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment
Here the royal Law James refers to is not the Mosaic Law as James first list out the love command which is similar to what Jesus gave in Matthew 22:34-40. Given the use of "royal" and "liberty" to refer to this law, it is not the ordinance of the Torah where one is expected to keep all of them but it is that of Christ which he lays out for believers to follow.
Failure to follow this law will make the lawbreakers convinced as transgressors. The word "convinced" or the Greek elencho often means "reprove" (a sinner; cf. Matt. 18:15) or "refute" (opponents; cf. Tit. 1:9). Sometimes it has the legal sense of "convict" (of wrongdoing; cf. also John 8:46; 16:8; 1 Cor. 14:24; Jude 15). Those believers who fail to abide by this law are "transgressors", which is the technical NT term for a person who directly disobeys a positive command (see also v. 11; Rom. 2:25, 27; Gal. 2:18; and note the use of the related term "transgression" in Rom. 2:23; 4:15; 5:14; Gal. 3:19; 1 Tim. 2:14; Heb. 2:2; 9:15).
This sort of harsh language wouldnt make sense if James is merely having "justification before men" in mind especially when eschatological final judgement is referred to in context of calling those who are partial in their treatment of people as transgressors convicted of wrongdoing and disobeys God. The eschatological judgement is clear in verses 12 and 13. Those who show no mercy, will receive judgement. This judgement is also not some temporal judgement but the final judgement where all are judged as this is most coherent with other NT verses on this and conditionals to obey such as 2 Corinthians 5:10, Matthew 25:31-46 and 1 John 3:24.
This is what sets the stage for the discussion of what real faith is. But Protniggers ignore context just so that he can justify projecting "muh justification before men" into the text.
With this in mind we proceed to James discussion of true faith. Firstly he asks,
14What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
PROTNIGGERS taking this dead faith as being able to save shows they dont know James 2 because when James poses this question, he is engaging in what is known as a diatribe where the answer will be "of course not!". He also introduces an interlocutor in this section.
As the rhetorical context(although it is so obvious without this) shows that James expects the answer to "Can a dead faith with no works save?" to be no, James 2 is not referring to justification merely before men as he is clear that the Baptist kind of faith cannot save. It is even considered the faith of demons.
So why did James then say he will show his faith by his works?
James' declaration is one made right after he illustrates a hypothetical or even possibly real situation where one of his audience seeing a brethren in need simply says "depart and go in peace". This doesnt help the poor brethren at all and by analogy, a faith with no works, is of no help at all. It is dead, like the brethren neglected.
James inserts a possible response from an interlocutor which says that "you have faith, I have works".
This verse could mean that James is citing someone who supports him or that it could be a way to identify two different positions and consider faith and works to be separated from each other in nature. The latter view flows well with James' later response which indicates faith is active in nature and expresses itself by action. This serve to contrast the illustration of neglect of feeding and caring for a poor brethren. This also serves to make the proceeding verses coherent as James compares "faith" which is not active as those of demons who believe and shudder and later provide OT examples of those justified by works before ending with a statement that faith without works is like a body with no soul. Dead. This makes Protniggers eisegesis a failure as James doesnt intend to say justified before men but is discussing an issue which is even salvific in nature>
Fact: Steven Anderson and the IFB are Gnostics Nicolaitans
OSAS in Gnosticism as Irenaeus describes
Justin Martyr BEING WORKS SALVATIONIST
Spamming papist completely and utterly triggered/unable to refute the photo here
Come back when you can address this photo and not spaz out.
You been BTFOed which is why you cannot face the fact that by your standards, the EARLY CHRISTIANS ARE IDOL WORSHIPPING WORK SALVATIONISTS
And James 2 BTFOs you. Your pic proves nothing because your pic does NOT EXEGETE the chapter and verse IN CONTEXT
You are just a pathetic Gnostic Satan
>Remkhan star on hat
You are like a little baby watch this
Is this some type of spell? There may be some flaws in the catholic church but many priests and followers are good.
>Justified used elsewhere in the Bible is against OT Mosiac Law
THAT ISNT THE LAW OF JAMES 2 RETARD
HURRRR I'M NOT GONNA READ ANY OF THIS GUYS BOOKS BECAUSE HE HAS A JOOOOO STAR ON HIS FUNNY HAT
If you don't understand that BXVI is based as it gets in the last 100 years, jump off a fucking bridge, user.
He is under the spell of Satan. This is why he cannot exegete James 2 at all. His stupid argument? JUSTIFIED ELSEWHERE RENOUNCES THE OT LAW
Worse still this stupid Gnostic doesnt even know Greek. If he does he knows his entire eisegesis fails
James 2 is about being justified before men, not God.
Just see for yourself, don't be intimidated by the massive amount of text, it's only 4 Bible verses.
>Jew star
I see you, Babylon
This has been addressed:
Also, JUSTIFICATION BY FAITH doesnt exclude necessary works for fuck's sake. That is why when BELIEVE is used it is in the PRESENT TENSE in John 3:16. Oops that means works Salvation because continual BELIEF is what is expected. This is also why ROMANS 11bloody tells the audience that unbelief CAUSES ONE TO BE GRAFTED OUT
John's Salvation includes works as HIS EPISTLES show. Thus you disregarding James' context abuse TRUE SOLA FIDE
he is behind it all
Notice that when JAMES 2 is explained IN DETAIL, he shudders like the demons who have faux faith
Catholicism has the most logical and well developed theology of all Christian denominations. Just because the Vatican has become corrupt doesn't change that.
This BTFOs the Gnostic OSAS
OP is correct.
This BTFOS the BAPTIST GNOSTIC ANARCHIST
Then by your logic, ALL early Christians are idol worshippers and Pagans
None of it has been addressed, and it's alarming seeing the satanic lies come out of you. James 2 is addressed to "My brethren"(James 2 verse 1).
The 3 other places *justified* is used say ONLY FAITH, NOT WORKS justifies us before God. Here it is again
>be IFB Gnostic
>sees a 4th century PRIEST use FAITH ALONE
HURRR MUH OSAS
MEANWHILE AFTER HE SAYS SOLA FIDE
Spamming all this stuff to try and refute 3 (THREE) clear verses from the Bible itself. Pathetic.
When did you realize calling Christianity Jewish was a Jewish Psyop?
>bro all you have to do is say you believe in Jesus to be saved you don't actually have to do the things he said to do