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Originally Posted by Brother Gonzalez
And faith needs works, according to other verses of the Bible (we have seen them before, didn't we? I mean James 2:14-26 for example)
So if you do good things, but do not believe in Jesus, you are going to Hell. That's salvation through faith and not works.
But in believing, you have to DO what God tells you. God tells you to go and multiply, God tells you that you are going to be saved by childbirth. God also tells you what not to do (e.g. you should not use mixed fabric)
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Of course "faith without works is dead". What this verse is saying is that works are an indicator of whether or not someone truly believes. If someone truly believes, then good works will inevitably follow.
NOWHERE does the Bible explicitly state "you will be damned if you do not do good works"