debate about justification by Catholic vs protestant

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.