Originally Posted by
nrajeff
---But seeing as how the Bible ALSO includes the Book of James--and you believe that book to be just as inspired as the Epistle to the Ephesians--and seeing as how the Book of Mormon's "It is by grace that we are saved after all we can do" agrees with James, how can you use Ephesians as a reason to reject the BOM without also rejecting James?
I think you'd need to come up with a less...inconsistent reason for remaining unconvinced that LDSism is what it claims to be.
You can't show the bible to be God's word by saying that it contradicts.. James and Paul are teaching the same thing.. Paul in Eph 2:10 that after we are saved true faith works"
Eph 2:10
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
And James saying that He can only see true faith in the works of the believer is complete unison in teaching:
James 2:18
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.
How a church that denies that God is One, but teaches that there are many God's and three for this world can use James as authority is beyond ridiculous. James clearly teaches that God is One and not many..
James 2:19
Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
bring your doctrine of God into the truth James taught and we will again talk about His Faith and works discussion.. IHS jim