had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way? For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. Arguing that faith without works is dead, the Book of James so incensed Martin Luther that the reformer called it “a veritable straw Epistle that should be thrown into the Rhine River.” Yet James proves that faith without works is dead by pointing to the example of Abraham. It’s not that Abraham was saved by taking Isaac up the mountain to sacrifice him