The Protestant idea of "faith alone" is stupid

[Donald]

"What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food.If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
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Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder."
(James 2:14-17, 18b-19)

Stupid nigger

 

[Donald]

"What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food.If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
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Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder."
(James 2:14-17, 18b-19)

I've heard some Protestant responses to confession and reconciliation be that "why would we need confession and reconciliation when Jesus already died to forgive us of our sins?" or "why do we need to tell our sins to a priest for them to be forgiven; can't we go directly to God?" What yould your counterarguments be? I would say for the first one that Jesus died to take away our original sin; we still need to make an effort to get back in communion with God. For the second one, I would say that God is forgiving us through the priest.

 

[Gem Control]

Crusty asshole of all people ranting about religion

 

[nagolbud]

 

[Xiuhcoyotl]

judaism won lil bro

 

[DonutHole]

Bro got -100000 good deeds

 

[nagolbud]

Bro got -100000 good deeds

Good thing I'm saved by what Jesus Christ did and not my own works...
If I was saved by my own "good deeds" Jesus Christ is dead in vain..

I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. - Galatians 2:21

But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away. - Isaiah 64:6