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Originally Posted by Jason Badejo
This doesn't prove the UPC doctrine at all. All James does is affirm that we are justified by faith, NOT by any human achievement or obedience. However, James' point is simply that true faith (aka saving faith) ALWAYS results in action. Saving faith is obedient faith. Saving faith is submissive faith. Saving faith is living faith. A mere mental assent to the facts of the gospel without any further action simply proves dead faith, and thereby an absence of saving faith. James quite specifically disqualifies "easy believism", as does John throughout
1 John.
We are justified (saved) at the point of faith/repentance, but the EVIDENCE of that faith is in our good works(Epehsians 2:10), the first among which should be water baptism so that we can identify with the death burrial and resurrection of Christ.
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Pretty sure that's what RevDWW just said.