Salvation by Grace Through Faith

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I know I’m walking into a minefield here but this question was bugging me, are we saved by faith alone or faith and works? So I went to the source, the Bible. My result was that we are saved by faith alone and here’s the proof:

http://jordan.christian.net/salvation.html

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We are saved by grace, through faith.

The problem is that those verses do not appear in the Bible without intervening verses. In other words, there’s a lot more in the Bible than you quoted.

For example, if you had search for the phrase “faith alone” and not “faith” you would have found James 2:24.

“You see that a person is justified by what he does and not by faith alone.”

Or Matthew 25:41-46, where Jesus condemns to everlasting punishment those who did not perform acts of charity.
 
I’m not saying that you shouldn’t do good works.

That’s where alot of Catholics (in my experience) misunderstand sola fide, they think that we believe in *antinomianism *(I believe that’s the right spelling) that once saved you can sin all you want. On the contrary, I believe that good works are a *result *of saving faith. So in my mind a person is justified by faith and proved by works.
 
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I know I’m walking into a minefield here but this question was bugging me, are we saved by faith alone or faith and works? So I went to the source, the Bible. My result was that we are saved by faith alone and here’s the proof:

http://jordan.christian.net/salvation.html

Sorry that its too long to fit on here
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We are saved by God’s Grace, through our Faith, manifested in Works.
 
Correct me if I’m wrong, but after the Joint Declaration on Justification (Catholic and Lutheran), couldn’t a Catholic explain that we are saved by grace, justified by faith, and sanctified by faith and works? If forensic justification were true this distinction would not apply, but since we hold that we are made righteous and are expected to cooperate in this, thus necessitating works as part of the salvation process, not an after-effect.
 
Now a man came up to Jesus and asked, “Teacher, what good thing must I do to get eternal life?” “Why do you ask me about what is good?” Jesus replied. “There is only One who is good. If you want to enter life, obey the commandments.” (Matt 19:16-17)

You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone. (James 2:24)

Jesus answered, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. (John 3:5)

Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven will enter. (Matt 7:21, cf. Lk 6:46)

Those verses would seem to complicate the argument for sola fide.
 
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