• demeritum@lemmygrad.ml
    13·
    1 month ago

    Ironically both:

    James 1:22: “Be doers of the word, and not hearers only. Otherwise, you are deceiving yourselves.”

    James 2:17–18: Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

    Exist as passages in the bible.

    • TabularTuxedo@lemmygrad.ml
      8·
      1 month ago

      I remember there was some conflict between James and some random letter from Paul over which is more important, faith or works. Apparently, Martin Luther almost took James out the Bible over that or something else.

        • PeeOnYou [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
          4·
          26 days ago

          told my mom about that one, she stopped talking to me about going to church and god afterward.

          don’t touch my precious faith bubble heathen!

          • Maeve@kbin.earth
            4·
            26 days ago

            I maintain most of these people aren’t believers, it’s just some sort of social cohesion that requires playing their parts.

          • Maeve@kbin.earth
            4·
            26 days ago

            A bunch of old testament, then the gnostic gospels: Mary, Thomas, Judas, etc. Can’t say about Paul, I’ve not run across any, so far. But the Book of Adam and Eve was only discovered in the last handful of years, so who knows?