The point of James 2 is quite simple. No it has nothing to do with works righteousness or salvation hinging on works as the lordship salvation guy says. The point of the chapter is to say that Faith results in action. Right doctrine results in action. Even the devils believe that God is one and they shudder. Faith without works is dead. If Christ has really torn down the dividing wall of hostility and that there is now no distinction between Jew or Gentile, slave or free, ri...ch or poor then how might that result how we ought to live towards our brethren in Christ? We do not judge according to the law but we are now free from the cursed law. This is not a passage to endorse self righteousness. Macarthur is wrong and so are the Lordshipers who try to distinguish between works done by the power of the flesh or works done by grace. Simply put, this passage removes all kinds of boasting in ones works whether the works done are of flesh or of grace; for the passage is about right doctrine or more particularly right gospel doctrine and not about works.
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