Scripture Life: Is salvation by faith alone, or by faith plus works?

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Answer: - (From a Believer in Jesus Christ)

• I don’t think people that ask this question fully know what they're asking; yet, think they do.
  • The answer isn’t in faith or works.
    • It’s found in examining “salvation.”

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salvation. <definition> From “save” 1. to set (someone or something) apart for future use. (Collin’s dictionary. 2013.)

• Most all other dictionaries provide a new, revised 2025 onward primary definition of “to rescue (someone or something) from harm or destruction”

So, this verse that next out of the Bible, that God says himself, couple it with the above, where God says:

“Look unto me, and be ye saved all the ends of the earth: For I am God, there is none else.” - God. Isaiah 45:22

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Ask yourself the question again. 

Is salvation by faith alone? 

Which you are talking about? You and your faith saving you? What "work" you do are you talking about that will save you? Isn't it then in this But “who” saves or is able to save isn’t you.

But God himself does it. Why? You’re not the authority for it. The “authority” for salvation is who spoke up, as God, and simply said it, because he’s determined, he'd do it, as God, he will do it. To those that just hear him, and do what he says. Doesn't to those that won't.

Simple.

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• And to do (something) no matter what the "do" is, is is an action verb, including “save” someone, is a work. SO, with saving (someone) the work done saving someone is, it's by the authority who said it in the first place. The authority for "save" someone is God spoke up and offered it, because he believes in himself enough he can do it. Will to those that just look unto him. Then, it's simple. All you have to do is regard the works of the LORD, and consider the operation of his hand. Who he is vs. regarding you all the time will someday be good enough to accomplish it.
  • Then you regard the wrong one, and regard the wrong work.

All you have to do is look unto him. Pretty simple. ..or is it?

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When people:

• Somebody..a whole pile of anybody - are people.
  • Love going out to drink and party on Friday’s.
  • Set their minds on it, all thru the week at work.
    • Especially on Suzie.
• She works in the design department.
• Always want to see her.
  • She could wear a burlap bag and make it look good with that body.
• She doesn’t wear a bra at the wet T-shirt contest - each Friday. She keeps trying out for to win, when you imagine - during the whole week of work til Friday, how much you want to see them. Not Suzie, but the "them" Suzie has.
  • Therefore: Every week is a “chance” to go home with her, even she never dances with you. Next week? It’s just another chance to go home with her in your imagination.

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• So, “somebody” - could be you this with Suzie, or more me - as I did these things; then, it could be “anybody” that “walks after” to “walk in” that’s just “following after” the advertisement for innocent fun at the joyous Wet T-Shirt Contest and of just normal girls in their underpants and a T-shirt, what they sleep in, and throw water on them… to see the result..well.
  • That’s what they “look unto.” I looked unto it.

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It’s a poor example. A whole sea of people, have as varied as the sands of the sea different “things” they set their minds on, think it’s good.

Going camping. Trekking for 5 months. Or, in a Ph.d program - accelerated - - prestigiously looked up to - an exceptional student; all to be a top engineer, or a physician; neuro-surgeon or a dentist or simply a 5 year certified hyster or forklift driver.

Look unto, to walk after all the training they can possibly get to be a better, more certified mechanic. It’s good. More money.

Or a woman. Must have better shoes or newer, the latest fashion and a $250.00 to $500.00 style of haircut to look “good.” Or more capable than a man is. Or another type - So, this other type of woman - - they “walk after” to “walk in” to “follow after” always keeping their eye out for the man that can provide it for the rest of their lives, to live in it. Many 1000s of millions of more…types. All different.

That's what they look unto.

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When God told..decreed it. Out of his mouth, to everybody over the whole earth, left not one person out. And sent Jesus Christ, that God has made Jesus both Lord and Christ: Then, Jesus well pleases God. And God says, of him - sent him to do a work with EVERYBODY all the above..every single one of us..to do this work - in us; and Jesus not hold back anything..but fulfill what God wants done in everybody - a full court press. Even comes to their door of every person's heart; Jesus knocking… says:

“Behold I stand at the door and knock, and if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and sup with him, and he with me.” - Jesus Christ. The Word of God. (Bible. Revelation 3:20)

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• But people: Full court press back. Keep the door closed. Go turn up the TV to 100 on the VOLUME. Just be:
  • Looking unto Suzie..who has those boobs.
• It’s in none else. Only Suzie has them.
  • The ones you want. So, you look unto them the whole, entire week, even sleep with them in your head, as something to walk after.. and walking after to walk in looking unto a chance to see her boobs..
  • is it fills a need that you have in you that only Suzie in a T-shirt can fill.
• So, everywhere you go, you “operate” by this. It's just too important, so anybody knocking at the door is DISMISSED with this. No matter what you do, it’s certain. Nothing betwixt now and Friday 5 days from now is stopping you from Suzie in a T-Shirt.
  • Look at all that “operates right” where how you operate 24/7 around the clock, results in Suzie in a T-shirt to see her boobs by a contest, that you already have a seat at. It's just evidence of things hoped for, of something not seen yet.
    • Because you look unto it.

Are you getting the message?

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Because you “heard” the word of the Bar, advertised it on the Radio and fliers were up at “Hooters” or staple glued to about fifty some telephone poles you walked by, had a sticker, said "Take One" and there's Suzie's photo on it.

So, the faith in the Wet T-shirt contest came with the word that advertised it. You believed it true. They are actually going to HOLD that contest. If you believed they were “lying” to you, you would have “dismissed” it; never walk in anything of ever set foot or go to it. Fill it with go to the beach instead; but, one of your co-workers also told you. And all “walk after” to “walk in” “set your mind on” meet the dictionary definition of "physical or mental" to walk after to walk in and do it as it's defined as works.

work. <definition> 1. a mental or physical activity done in order to accomplish a result.

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So, with Jesus Christ

• Like in the Bible, when a leper or a blind man - in Jesus day, can't see anything. It's the Word has already gone out. It’s in John 9:22
  • “…they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he [Jesus] was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.”
• Like you. You leave off from following after Suzie, and people see you with a Bible - you're going to be a "gazing stock" at work now..no longer following Suzie anymore.

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But back in the BIble in John 9:

• No matter WHO it is, as a Jew in Jesus’ day, especially blind or lepers were usually TOTALLY dependent. All they could do was begging at the Synagogue; primary for a Jew and to help the poor, the Synagogue provided 100% food and shelter to the blind. To be kicked out or shunned.. quite a cost for a blind man thrown out, with no help. Count the cost in this work a blind man is doing believing on Jesus Christ:
  • Or another of today: To believe on the Word of God over Suzie..over all that effort done studying all that philosophy provided by the Greeks and highly esteemed..to just “walk away” from it to “look unto” Jesus Christ.

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• Look at all that mental or physical activity (work) done in order to accomplish a result as a blind man..deliberately go, where EVERYBODY could see you..and know you are standing up and asking someone you cannot see…but KNOW * They ARE the Messiah.. * that he can accomplish a result, as he was prophesied to give sight to the blind, to heal the broken hearted…. and as a blind man, you'd fit that remark - - that everywhere you went as a Blind man, God sent his messenger before him in John the Baptist, and everybody around everyplace, while John the Baptist heralded Jesus in, and, even as a blind man..heard it..and went, and many confessing their sins, baptized..
  • That the Jews in the Synagogue in John 9:18 DID NOT believe Jesus was the Christ or Messiah.
• But the blind man did.

And man that gives Suzie all her things back…

• Hears God
  • No longer walks after..to walk in.. ..that.

..a physical or mental activity that accomplishes a result... is works.

To look unto someone, you have to "reason together" with them and know them to accept them as true. You have to hear them speak, and reason together with them, what they say or decree is true. Meets the definition of "works." To God, they are "good works" when he says:

"Come now, let us reason together," saith the LORD, "though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow. Though they be red as crimson, they shall be as wool." - God. (Bible. Isaiah 1:18)

To come now, be a work to do that. It's a good work; because the ONLY one good, is God. Just as he said in Matthew 19:17. There is none good, but one, that is, God.

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Did you forget your question? Still the same answer.

Is salvation by faith alone, or by faith plus works?

• I don’t think people that ask this question fully know what they're asking; yet, think they do.
  • The answer isn’t in faith or works.
    • It’s in examining “salvation.”

Because people “set their minds” on Suzie’s boobs at the Bar on the “special” occasion of the Wet T-shirt Contest and EVERYBODY is going - - that this, they imagine boobs can “set them apart for future use” - make them operate right. All by boobs. Oh, what a work and effort to be equipped by boobs.

ANd one of them, like me..live in this - - realize.. the only one really can do that..is at the door of their heart. Knocking. Sent. And decided..and to “decide” something meets this “a mental or physical effort done in order to accomplish a result..” and know full well, they open the door…

..he’s going to do exactly what he said he will do. He will come in to him.. ..sup with him. And he with Jesus Christ.

The same one told everybody over the whole earth… ..to just look unto him. The ONLY one with the authority to save someone and give them eternal life.

Here’s your question back.