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Where does James say that? If you say James 2:14, then you're mistaken. James is making the point that a faith that has no evidence is not faith at all. Notice my addition of the indefinite article "a" before "faith"? It's because I haven't introduced the faith subject prior to that. If I had, I...

But faith is not alone. No able Christian should sit on the couch all day long "just" believing in Christ, asking others to provide for him. No evangelist should just wait at home believing God has saved him and others, but should actually tell others of Christ and the resurrection. No...

But I think those descriptions are accurate. Why don't you agree? For instance, if Paul called preachers of other so-called gospels anathema (accursed), Gal 1:8, and the gospel of the kingdom is another gospel, which is a tenet of MAD, what is there to disagree about?

That Paul and other NT writers were not only targeting different people groups, but also were propagating different gospels, which Paul anathematized. That the Jews could achieve salvation by persevering, but others didn't have to. That there was competition between the 12 apostles vs Paul--to...

Thanks for answering so succinctly, Stripe. I agree that much of it fits the narrative, but not all.

If we apply perfect reasoning to faulty premises, we get a faulty result. You keep calling it faulty or poor reasoning, and it is, but not because we are incapable of the reasoning process. Adam and Eve had faulty reasoning because they thought they knew everything they needed to know--a faulty...

That won't be enough, unless every member of Congress does it. And then the rest of us don't have to.

And your point is? What about this verse do you think speaks against what I wrote? Do you really think just quoting a scripture without any explanation is going to be effective? As if I never saw that scripture before? As if nobody who disagrees with your view ever saw it before?

I hate to reply because there's nothing to say, but i feel bad for your thread.

With a divisive theology? You should. Not all works are deeds of the law, nor are we to trust in our works, else Paul is duplicitous when he commands works. No, James specifically says, "Can that kind of faith save that doesn't have any works?" He, like Paul, is saying faith saves, not works...

More that you can't help carrying others with you, or you should question your faith.

You quote Paul saying: Then you quote James saying: Which ends with this verse you left out: 16And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? And then you can say with a...

We purposefully justify our bad behavior. But that is saying the opposite of what you said before--that our perception determines our reasoning. Our perception can be false and misleading, so we can't base our reasoning on our perceptions. There has to be a standard that is outside our...

Anti something, for sure.

This is a dangerous position. We might not know enough to reason with God, but that means our conclusion is faulty, even if logically arrived at, because it is based on faulty premises. If reasoning is right based on perception, then it was right for Adam and Eve to eat of the tree of knowledge...

You forgot 4 There's some remaining difference between the body of Christ Christians and the kingdom of Israel Christians that must be maintained on pain of being scorned, though no one can adequately explain why.

Just like they can't find who started the J6 riot, or the G Whitmer kidnap plot, or who killed JFK, or who colluded with Russia, or who created COVID 19. It's difficult to find out who did it when they won't look internally.

Because he was a troll.

Then you reject scripture? ...when he wasn't yet physically dead. Not in Abimelech's case. And if you don't need that explanation for Abimelech, then it isn't necessary in other cases. Your problem is explaining how God could call Abimelech dead when he was still alive, and it wasn't...

I started talking with my family about this "coincidence" a couple years ago.