Well, yes and no.
In meditating on many writers and philosophers and average Joe's, I've come to see that it is not about "works".
It's more a matter of saying that we are saved by faith, hope and love.
And when the world is distilled to such a simple view where prayers are not counted or tallied, and instead love and hope are joined hand in hand with faith, I cannot help but ask......how can you object to such a view of the world?
It's a view where these words make sense:
For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love. Galatians 5:6
The same could be said about these words, which look at the world from the "glass is half empty" viewpoint:
....if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:2b
1 comment:
Amen. Also, we can't bear to avoid the words of St. James when he calls us to be "doers" of the word and not "hearers only" thus deceiving ourselves. Faith and works are one inseparable entity, its heartbreaking when people describe it otherwise.
Great posts on this blog, sir. What's your story?
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