If you are going to keep talking about me you are inviting my response. And you have a perverted sense of "love" because everyone knows lying about others is hate and certainly not love in any sense of the word.
How long was it until Abraham offered up Isaac and
confirmed his faith by his
deeds and actions? His being accounted as righteous for his belief was not
fulfilled until that very day, just as the epistle of James clearly says, and it was at the very least twenty years later; and more likely about twenty-six years because Ishmael was circumcised at thirteen, before Isaac was even born. Therefore a simple claim of "belief" proves nothing without that belief having been converted into faithfulness over time, combined with deeds, which are based upon said belief to prove and confirm said belief and faithfulness. Around here such deeds can only be shown by way of scripture knowledge because it reveals how much one loves or does not love the Father and His Word. Has one who studies the Word now fallen from grace according to these people? And is that what you believe also? Can you not see how twisted that thinking is? Anyone with knowledge of the scripture is now trusting in his works to save him? It is nothing more than evil accusations against those who love the Word. My "deeds" and "works" are shown in what I have posted; and no one here has refuted anything I have said because what I have said and quoted is all from the scripture. What you have here in this thread are people making claims about themselves but who cannot show you or me or anyone else any evidence of their false claims about themselves because they do not love the Word so much as they claim. If they truly believed "Jesus is God Almighty" don't you suppose they would hang on every word which he speaks in the Gospel accounts? Why then do they do not what he says if indeed they believe what they claim to believe? But instead they put his words into another dispensation, far, far away from themselves. You do not do the same do you Danoh?
James 2:19-24 KJV
19 Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
22 Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
24 Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Do you also choose not to believe the whole scripture Danoh? Do you not see what it plainly says? Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Do you not see how faith co-operated with his works? Do you not see that by works his faith was finally perfected some twenty-six years later? Only then, some twenty-six years later when he offered his son Isaac on the altar, was the scripture fulfilled, which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was accounted unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God."
Yet another false doctrine put to rest by way of the scripture.
What a great thread this was. Shalom Danoh.
