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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's faith AND works. Get it? Not JUST works.

If you just believe, and do bad things, you are saved? That's crazy talk to me.

Literal interpretation means relying on what the Bible says, literally. As in people who believe Adam and Eve is a literal story and the Earth was created 6,000 years ago.[/quote]
Further, 1 John 3:4-10: "Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness. You know that he (Christ) appeared in order to take away sins, and in him there is no sin. No one who abides in him keeps on sinning; no one who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous. Whoever makes a practice of sinning is of the devil, for the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. No one born of God makes a practice of sinning, for God's seed abides in him, and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God. By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother."

I hope this clarifies this point, further. We are born of God, that is, made righteous through faith in Christ. After that, we are given the Holy Spirit to help us live out a Christian life, which bears fruit in love and good works. No one who has truly been made righteous through faith in Christ will claim that they can sin all they want with impunity, and when they do sin, they are filled with unease and sorrow. But it is [i]not [/i]our works that save us. I think it is merely the case that many people who claim to be Christians have not really trusted in Christ. Jesus said, "You shall know them by their fruits." (Matthew 7:16)[/quote]

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