What do you say about this?

That's part of a conversation between 2 persons. What do you say about the reply of person B? Is he right?

A:I don't understand this. Paul is talking about the freedom but then he goes on and names all kinds of sins and says that nobody who does this will inherit the Kingdom of God! This doesn't sound like freedom but rather like a threat.

B: If you don't honor God, how can he honor you? If you don't work to perfect yourself each day, then why should you be able to inherit the kingdom with God? Part of being saved is obediance. You are not saved in spite of obediance. A person who claims Christ as their saviour, but lives like hell, is more than likely destined to hell.

 

I thought because of.............................. Jesus?!

 

I'm not the person who said that if you think that.

 

I don't know what you mean.

Instead of asking questions it would be easier if you simply posted an answer to my question.

 

@ donnA

Are you referring to what person B said?

But maybe this person said this because of what James said. I don't know but James' faith without works is dead stuff is really confusing. It sounds like faith + work = heaven. I know that the christians will simply say that works are not necessary to be saved, they are simply a result of real faith and if you have no works then you also have no faith. But doesn't this also force you to do good works because you automatically think that a real christian also has to have works and this means that if you want to be a real christian then you have to have works. You cannot be a real christian without works, right? But what if somebody is insecure and thinks: "How do I know that I'm a real christian? Maybe I better start doing works because this will prove that I am a real christian..."
What if christians try to prove to themselves that they are real by doing works?
I find it hard to make James fit to other books in the bible. Did Paul ever say something like faith without works is dead? I don't think so. How do we know that Paul would have agreed with James? What if James was wrong? Or what if James isn't genuine? I think that the christians today would find a way to make everything fit to the bible but what if they are just trying to explain contradictions? You can always find an explanation for everything.

 

I did not say that James is not accurate. The problem is that when you have such a hard time making different verses from the bible fit to each other then you can get such thoughts as "What if this isn't even genuine...". You simply get such thoughts. Or do you want to tell me that you do not also have problems making different things fit to each other? Just the other day I listened to Dr.Cairns and he was preaching about faith and works and he also said exactly what I thought. It's not easy to make everything fit together. There are indeed problems and if you don't have the answers to solve them then you end up being confused. If even somebody like Cairns admits that some questions aren't easy to answer then how is it supposed to be easy for somebody like me?