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True Version of God
It is God's will that all come to repentance (2Pet 3:9) so he can save them all (1Tim 2:4). He cannot justify unrepentant sinners. God elects/enlightens unbelievers who are repentant. See PDF titled CHRISTIANS AGAINST FAITH ALONE for more details.
God sees those who are willing to repent into his perfect law (Christ's law) and do righteousness rather than evil from now on as deserving and worthy of forgiveness, with only those who continue to forsake evil being deemed worthy of keeping forgiveness. If the person decides to forsake God and goes back to a life of sin they are no longer deserving of God’s forgiveness and are actually deserving of worse punishment than those who were never forgiven. Those whom God forgives are enlightened by God and this enlightenment (belief) is one evidence that they are currently saved. Those whom God condemns are given delusion causing unbelief.
Faith is a mark of salvation but not the cause of salvation (it is impossible to obey a commandment which says, "Thou shalt believe"). Departure from evil is a mark of salvation and is also one reason God chooses to save and enlighten the individual. Only those who have both marks (belief and departure from evil) are to be counted a true convert (currently saved).
In one sense, salvation is not of works because grace was needed (11:6, 4:4). But in another way, salvation is by works and not faith only (James 2:24) because salvation is granted (grace, not owed) to whom God chooses, and God chooses based on his judgement, and his judgement is based on works (2:6) and other factors such as the person's willingness to repent and live holy from now on.
Faith-Alone Version of God (False version of God)
Faith-Alone Christians believe God requires people to live a perfect sinless life from birth to death with failure to do so leaving the person damned to Hell with no hope of ever making themselves deserving of forgiveness. Even if they repent and do not do that sin any more they still deserve Hell for their past sin according to their God’s judgement. Their God has no mercy. They say, "If we could just repent to be justified, Jesus died in vain" (Gal 2:21). But the correct meaning of that passage is: If the first covenant (Judaism, circumcision, the nation of Israel, the law of Moses) was the covenant given for justification there would be no need for another covenant, so Jesus' covenant would have been given in vain (similar to Heb 8:7). Their God demands perfection but because no one is perfect he has resorted to making salvation by faith alone with departure from evil (repentance of sin) being perhaps evidence of having received salvation (depending on the type of faith alone doctrine) but NOT instrumental (causative) in the gaining or keeping of it, with no threat of the person ever being condemned (no longer forgiven) for failing to obey Christ's commandments (obey Christ's commandments means repenting of accidental sin and refusing to sin willfully). In their reading of the Scripture faith-alone causes salvation. It is a false-version of God. They also hold that if a Christian believes they must repent/work/obey to become or remain saved/forgiven they are a damned false-Christian (they use a misinterpretation of Rom 4:5 to teach this). Rom 4:5 actually has nothing to do with Christianity. It is part of a passage put forward to prove that Jews are not the children of Abraham, thus proving Christians do not need to be Jews to be saved and that God has not broken his promises to never forsake the children of Abraham by excluding some Jews in Christianity.
It is God's will that all come to repentance (2Pet 3:9) so he can save them all (1Tim 2:4). He cannot justify unrepentant sinners. God elects/enlightens unbelievers who are repentant. See PDF titled CHRISTIANS AGAINST FAITH ALONE for more details.
God sees those who are willing to repent into his perfect law (Christ's law) and do righteousness rather than evil from now on as deserving and worthy of forgiveness, with only those who continue to forsake evil being deemed worthy of keeping forgiveness. If the person decides to forsake God and goes back to a life of sin they are no longer deserving of God’s forgiveness and are actually deserving of worse punishment than those who were never forgiven. Those whom God forgives are enlightened by God and this enlightenment (belief) is one evidence that they are currently saved. Those whom God condemns are given delusion causing unbelief.
Faith is a mark of salvation but not the cause of salvation (it is impossible to obey a commandment which says, "Thou shalt believe"). Departure from evil is a mark of salvation and is also one reason God chooses to save and enlighten the individual. Only those who have both marks (belief and departure from evil) are to be counted a true convert (currently saved).
In one sense, salvation is not of works because grace was needed (11:6, 4:4). But in another way, salvation is by works and not faith only (James 2:24) because salvation is granted (grace, not owed) to whom God chooses, and God chooses based on his judgement, and his judgement is based on works (2:6) and other factors such as the person's willingness to repent and live holy from now on.
Faith-Alone Version of God (False version of God)
Faith-Alone Christians believe God requires people to live a perfect sinless life from birth to death with failure to do so leaving the person damned to Hell with no hope of ever making themselves deserving of forgiveness. Even if they repent and do not do that sin any more they still deserve Hell for their past sin according to their God’s judgement. Their God has no mercy. They say, "If we could just repent to be justified, Jesus died in vain" (Gal 2:21). But the correct meaning of that passage is: If the first covenant (Judaism, circumcision, the nation of Israel, the law of Moses) was the covenant given for justification there would be no need for another covenant, so Jesus' covenant would have been given in vain (similar to Heb 8:7). Their God demands perfection but because no one is perfect he has resorted to making salvation by faith alone with departure from evil (repentance of sin) being perhaps evidence of having received salvation (depending on the type of faith alone doctrine) but NOT instrumental (causative) in the gaining or keeping of it, with no threat of the person ever being condemned (no longer forgiven) for failing to obey Christ's commandments (obey Christ's commandments means repenting of accidental sin and refusing to sin willfully). In their reading of the Scripture faith-alone causes salvation. It is a false-version of God. They also hold that if a Christian believes they must repent/work/obey to become or remain saved/forgiven they are a damned false-Christian (they use a misinterpretation of Rom 4:5 to teach this). Rom 4:5 actually has nothing to do with Christianity. It is part of a passage put forward to prove that Jews are not the children of Abraham, thus proving Christians do not need to be Jews to be saved and that God has not broken his promises to never forsake the children of Abraham by excluding some Jews in Christianity.
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