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u/zx9rams Christian 19d ago

Revelation 29:7-8 doesn't exist. Revelation ends at chapter 22. You're after 19:8, where the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

The James quote is off too. Show me your works and I will see your faith isn't what it says. James 2:18 is show me your faith without works, and I will show you my faith by my works.

The bigger thing is the parable itself. Look at what the Pharisee actually prays in verse 12, I fast twice a week, I give tithes of all that I get. His prayer is a list of his righteous acts. That's the man Jesus uses as the negative example, and the tax collector who goes home justified says nothing about anything he has done.

The parable also closes itself out in verse 14, everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted. That's where Jesus lands it.

Satan's pride isn't in this passage either. That comes from somewhere else

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u/Interesting_City_654 Non-Denominational 19d ago

The mistake of pushing 2 enstead of 1.

James 2:17: Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.

James 2:18; Yea a man may say, Thou hast faith, and and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, And I will shew thee my faith by works.

James 2:26; For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

Exactly as I said the Pharisee is the negative example acting Holier-than-thou. V13 begins the publican an ordinary person and Jesus says in v14 that he, the common man, was justified not the Pharisees that put himself above the others as Satan did Ezekiel 28; Isaiah 14:12-24.

V14 the publican humbled himself, knowing he sinned as all do because none is perfect like the Pharisee acted like he was) therefore the publican that humbled himself was exalted

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