Comments on: We need shrinkage. https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2012/05/we-need-shrinkage/ Bleak Theology: Hopeful Science Fri, 23 Jan 2015 02:04:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 By: We are judged by our actions. | Dark Brightness https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2012/05/we-need-shrinkage/comment-page-1/#comment-490 Thu, 24 May 2012 20:02:56 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=390#comment-490 […] Will commented yesterday Mmm. I wonder what your response to this bible passage is that seems to contradict that faith alone saves: Faith and Deeds James 2:14-24 […]

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By: will https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2012/05/we-need-shrinkage/comment-page-1/#comment-489 Thu, 24 May 2012 11:38:00 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=390#comment-489  Mmm. I wonder what your response to this bible passage is that seems to contradict that faith alone saves:
Faith and Deeds James 2:14-24

14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? 15 Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. 16 If
one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but
does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? 17 In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
18 But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.”
Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. 19 You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that —and shudder.
20 You foolish person, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless[d]? 21 Was not our father Abraham considered righteous for what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? 22 You see that his faith and his actions were working together, and his faith was made complete by what he did. 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,”[e] and he was called God’s friend. 24 You see that a person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone.

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By: Bohemianrockstar https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2012/05/we-need-shrinkage/comment-page-1/#comment-481 Mon, 21 May 2012 21:26:00 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=390#comment-481 This is a good post.

I think the thing is that many christians don’t know how to live “after the cross” and stay a sinner. Even Jesus said to go and sin no more. I’m a Christian mystic, and that’s what’s missing. I’d take saint Francis of Assisi over any television evangelist today.

Even Paul said to move on to greater things. The church is stuck and can’t deal with a resurrected life, it’s too powerful.

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