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Four Ways of Looking at Faith and Works
1. Faith Alone (no works which is contrary to Romans’s emphasis on “the obedience of faith” – 1:6; 16:26).
2. Faith and Works (which seems contrary to being saved by faith).
3. Faith that works (which is our faith and is using “works” as a verb instead of a noun – Galatians 5:6 – “but faith working through love”).
4. Faithful works (which is putting works into a category of being defined by God – Ephesians 2:10 – “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them”).
Of these four, the 3rd and 4th are the most biblical. Combined we could say,
We are saved by a personal faith that works doing God’s faithful works.
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