r. Walter Martin Debates Fr. Mitchell Pacwa of EWTN of the Catholic channel on the Doctrine of Penance. Taken from John Ankerberg Show.
John Ankerberg keeps leaving out James chapter 2 especially 2:14 What use is it, my brethren, if a man says he has faith, but he has no works? Can That faith save him?
2:17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is dead, being by itself."
2:21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar? 22 You see that faith was working with his works and as a result of the works, faith was perfected...........24 You see that a man is justified by works, and not by faith alone. However he does bring it up later.
John Ankerberg keeps using the phrase faith alone as being in the Bible---but the only place it is used is in James 2 where it says we are not justified by faith alone. The word alone is not used in the Roman passages.
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