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It's all about the trickle down faith...
Sending thoughts & prayers 🙏🏼 >


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 (James 2) >

I’ve noticed that reading James makes a lot of “Christians” real uncomfortable. >

What do you mean? >

Many of the churches formed by the Protestant reformation affirm that believers are made right in God’s eyes solely through profession of faith, and not through good works. In these reformed ideologies, good works are seen as evidence of good faith, and not as a requirement for salvation. 
This is in stark contrast to what is written in James, and most of the reformists I know just kind of ignore James and try not to make eye contact when people bring it up. >

I see, thanks for the breakdown. I grew up Southern Baptist, so I know a small town full of hypocrites. It’s one of the reasons I left the church in the early aughts. I occasionally return to services when I’m in town, but I spend the majority of the time thumbing through the Bible out of nostalgic curiosity. I’ll have to re-read through James sometime. I spent this past Christmas service thumbing around Genesis 19 (thanks, Reddit!) >

Same same same. >

Only if Jesus gave us clear guidance on how to behave towards poor and homeless people… I suppose we’ll never know. >

Jesus was a filthy socialist 
~ godly republicans