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The epistle of James is a beautifully constructed Christian letter written by an author with a pastor’s heart. The writer is a skilled communicator. His style is both terse and graphic, employing a wide range of effective illustrations, making it easy to believe that he also taught God’s truth orally with considerable power. An indispensible element of the New Testament canon, the letter’s...

way diminishes man’s responsibility to seek God and the illumination He alone can give (Acts 17:26–27; Heb 11:6). Thus the teaching that goes by the name of “Lordship Salvation” is flawed at its core. By insisting that saving faith is an act of the will, it demolishes the biblical concept of faith as an essentially passive and assured reception of God’s truth. Biblical saving faith is a conviction or persuasion about what God says to us in the Gospel (Rom 4:21). There is no place here for man’s will
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