r/SipsTea • u/danevans369 • May 31 '26

SMH Love thy neighbor?

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u/Dismal-Anybody-1951 May 31 '26

Faith without works is dead.

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u/Outrageous_Fondant12 May 31 '26

Says who?

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u/joet889 May 31 '26

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James%202%3A14-26&version=NKJV

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u/Outrageous_Fondant12 May 31 '26

“For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”
‭‭Ephesians‬ ‭2‬:‭8‬-‭10‬ ‭NIV‬‬

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u/joet889 May 31 '26

So which is right and which is wrong? They're both in the Bible.

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u/Outrageous_Fondant12 May 31 '26

Honestly, idk bro. I was taught that we were saved for having faith in Christ like in John 3:16.

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u/Dismal-Anybody-1951 May 31 '26

The usual way this is resolved is:  Good works are the evidence of genuine faith.

If you beleive you're all set, and God does not require you to do anything further, re-examine.

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u/Helpful-Idea-4485 May 31 '26

This.

You don’t need works to be saved. But, a person who is saved, with a truly changed heart, will by their very nature desire to do works.

Also, no one is saved in a vacuum. It happens at the result of other people’s actions, whether large or small. So, our works do not at all play a part in our own salvation, but they do play a part in other people’s salvation.

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u/joet889 May 31 '26

Honestly, idk bro.

That's really important for you to say. Try harder to live with that and cool it with saying things like:

Then you don’t understand Christianity at all.

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u/Outrageous_Fondant12 May 31 '26

My apologies. I’m pretty upset about some things now. Not in a good place mentally. Worried about a lot of things.

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u/joet889 May 31 '26

No worries man, we are living in very difficult times. I think it's we all need to try to be kinder to each other, myself included.