who constantly fight against it and oppose themselves to it. (Homilies on Romans, 18:5) We’ve shown here that there is more than one way to read the Bible and that the early reading of the Scriptures regarding faith and works is quite different from the reading proposed by Martin Luther and other Reformers. When we misread the Bible, we make a liar of God, and we lead people down the wrong paths by giving them a false sense of hope and a cheap sense of the value of salvation. We are assuring them