What James is saying is that real "faith" results in good works and if good works do not result then it is not a saving faith.
In other words, in order for it to be saving faith, works are required.
:think:
Thanks for making it obvious that you have no idea what you're talking about.
But he is not saying that works are required for salvation, as evidenced by what he said in the first chapter:
Speaking out of both sides of one's mouth is a sure sign of a dishonest person.
Either works are required, or they are not, Jerry.
Either:
Works + Faith
OR
Faith alone
There are no other options.
"Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures"
(Jas.1:18).
And Peter teaches the same thing:
"Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God...And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you" (1 Pet.23,25).
The Jews who lived under the law and believed in His name were given the right to be the children of God and therefore they were "born of God":
"He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the children of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God" (Jn.1:11-13).
The Lord Jesus said the following to a Jewess who lived under the law and notice that the only requirement which He said is needed for the reward is "believing":
"I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die" (Jn.11:25-26).
Then He asks:
"Do you believe this? "
glorydaz, do you believe what the Savior said to the woman?