Divinely Prescribed

Improving Humanities Outcomes: As divine prescriptions by the letters from the scribes

And so the Scripture was fulfilled which says:

James 2:1
My brothers and sisters. within the glorious faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, do not choose to show favoritism toward persons

2 For if a man or woman has entered your assembly having a gold ring and splendid apparel, and if a poor man has also entered, in dirty clothing

3 and if you are then attentive to the one who is clothed in excellent apparel, so that you say to him, \”You may sit in this good place,\” but you say to the poor man, \”You stand over there,\”

\’or, \”Sit below my footstool.

4are you not judging within yourselves?

and have you not become judges with unjust thoughts

My most beloved brothers and sisters, listen Has not God chosen the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom that God has promised to those whom love him

But you have dishonored the poor. Are not the rich the ones who oppress you? through power? And are not they the ones who drag you to judgment?!

Are not they the ones who blaspheme the good name which has been invoked over you?

So if you perfect the regal law, according to the Scriptures, \”You shall love your neighbor as yourself,» then you do well

But if you show favoritism to persons, then you commit a sin, having been convicted again by the law as transgressors

Now whoever has observed the whole law, yet who offends in one matter, has become guilty of all

For he who said, \"You shall not commit adultery,\" also said, \"You shall not kill.\" So if you do not commit adultery, but you kill, you have become a transgressor of the law

So speak and act just as you are beginning to be judged, by the law of liberty

For judgment is without mercy toward him who has not shown mercy. But mercy exalts itself above judgment

My brothers, what benefit is there if someone claims to have faith, but he does not have works?

How would faith be able to save him?

So if a brother or sister is naked and daily in need of food….

16 and if anyone of you were to say to them: \”Go in peace, keep warm and nourished,\” and yet not give them the things that are necessary for the body, of what benefit is this

Thus even faith, if it does not have works, is dead, in and of itself

Now someone may say: \”You have faith, and I have works.\” Show me your faith without works! But I will show you my faith by means of works

You believe that there is one God. You do well. But the demons also believe, and they tremble greatly

So then, are you willing to understand, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead

Was not our father Abraham justified by means of works, by offering his son Isaac upon the altar

Do you see that faith was cooperating with his works, and that by means of works faith was brought to fulfillment

And so the Scripture was fulfilled which says:

\”Abraham believed God, and it was reputed to him unto justice.\” And so he was called the friend of God

Do you see that a man is justified by means of works, and not by faith alone

Similarly also, Rahab, the harlot, was she not justified by works, by receiving the messengers and sending them out through another way

Don’t be fooled; For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead