You are wrong. I was a child and did nothing but believe.
No one will be saved by faith alone---so says James that speaks the Word of God.
The ONLY way to be saved is by FAITH ALONE, and faith alone in the correct object alone, and that correct object alone is, Jesus Christ and what He did at the Cross of Calvary.
You have no idea of which faith James is talking about.
Jesus is the Way. You will not get Life, unless you obey the Truth.
John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
EXACTLY, no one comes to the Father by providing the works of their own hands. Jesus says so.
The Jews used to do work to make themselves clean/purified/righteous. No one can make themselves clean anymore except by faith that Jesus’ blood cleans us of the sins we repent of doing.
You are providing the works of your own hands exactly as the Jews of old did.
Jesus has a yoke. Yoke means work. Jesus’ work is light, easy, and not burdensome.
Yes, His work is easy, because you don't have to provide the works of your hands.
His work is to be ACCEPTED for He has already paid for it.
ONLY those that OBEY God know God.
ONLY those who are FOUND ‘in Christ’ know God and are known of God, exactly because they are found 'in Christ' and because they have rested trying to present the work of their hands.
Whoever says, "I know him," but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person.
You can only “know Him” when He places you ‘in Christ’ which is the command that He has given, ‘come unto me and I will give you rest’.
You say you know Him by saying that you are providing the works of your hands, which you have already stated, yes, I know, you don’t know that, is rejected by God.
God did not nail obedience to the cross.
Sure He did.
He said 'come and I will give you rest', and you, gt, have not obeyed Him at all, even though you say you have obeyed Him, for you keep on presenting the works of your hands to Him, and the works of our hands are rejected by God.
According to you, Jesus taught obey, but then God nullified his words on the cross.
You have absolutely no understanding at all of Jesus Christ and His finished work on the Cross of Calvary. None!