Right Behavior Inherits Eternal Life

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Many passages state we are saved by faith.

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Faith is an action word. You are doing something when you practice it. Practice is an action word, it means you are doing something when you practice. When you practice the flute, you are not sitting there, looking at it.
Action, activity, requires effort or work. Therefore, faith without works is impossible, it is dead, it is not faith.
Faith is an action word the way love is.
Faith in God requires intimacy with him. Works without that intimacy is a waste of time.

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I understand what you were trying to say, but I don't see the NT authors supporting faith to be an action word like love.

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Your assertion is remarkable in that faith is an action word in any other setting but not scripture.
That leaves the guy who does not follow abstract reasoning very well in the mist, fog, and at the mercy of those who would interpret scripture FOR him.
I should like to suggest that you did NOT understand what I was trying to say and leave off any effort.
You are doing something when you have faith.
You are doing something when you have sex.
Action words, nary a moment alluding to verbs.

right behavior inherits.

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the importance of right behavior in inheriting

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