Scripture Blog

This weblog is my personal online scripture journal. I try to read the scriptures each morning as I exercise on my cross-trainer. It has a great impact on my life and my testimony of the Savior and his restored church. The journal is really for my own benefit but I have set it up as a web log in hopes to benefit anyone else that may be interested. "For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost..." 1 Nephi 10:19

Monday, November 20, 2023

James 2

 I feel James settles the argument that faith or belief in Jesus Christ is all that is required to live in "heaven".  James seems to suggest, like the Prophet Joseph Smith, is a principle of action or obedience.  He asks - 

"What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?"  (James 2:14)

Adding - 

"Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works."  (James 2:18)

In other words -

"But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?"  (James 2:20)

Obviously, works include repentance and entering into ordinances and covenants.