Jesus answers this perfectly.
Luke 10
25And a lawyer stood up and put Him to the test, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
26And He said to him, “What is written in the Law? How does it read to you?”
27And he answered, “YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND; AND YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.”
28And He said to him, “You have answered correctly; DO THIS AND YOU WILL LIVE.”
And then the example Jesus gives is Good Samaritan.
29But wishing to justify himself, he said to Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?”
30Jesus replied and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and they stripped him and beat him, and went away leaving him half dead.
31“And by chance a priest was going down on that road, and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.
32“Likewise a Levite also, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side.
33“But a Samaritan, who was on a journey, came upon him; and when he saw him, he felt compassion,
34and came to him and bandaged up his wounds, pouring oil and wine on
them; and he put him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn and took care of him.
35“On the next day he took out two denarii and gave them to the innkeeper and said, ‘Take care of him; and whatever more you spend, when I return I will repay you.’
36“Which of these three do you think proved to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers’
hands?”
37And he said, “The one who showed mercy toward him.” Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do the same.”
Is this good Samaritan or damned Samaritan?
A faith DEVOID of Love that is called evil. I can give you scripture flat out saying so.
1 Corinthians 13
2If I have
the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
In other words its requires THE GOOD WORK --> Love God.
Love God is the highest priority. No greater reward. We have entire epistles pointing this out, like 2 John 1.
The only time the bible writes out the unbiblical slogan "FAITH ALONE"
James 2
24You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.
2 Peter 1
5For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge;
6and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness;
7and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love.
Why do you have to add goodness to faith? Because it doesn't have any.
Why do you have to add knowledge to faith? Because it doesn't have any.
Why do you have to add self-control to faith? Because it doesn't have any.
Why do you have to add perseverance to faith? Because it doesn't have any.
Why do you have to add godliness to faith? Because it doesn't have any.
Why do you have to add mutual affection to faith? Because it doesn't have any.
Why do you have to add Love to faith? Because it doesn't have any.
James 2
14What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can that faith save him?
Answer the man.^ Tell him it sure can.
James 2
20But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless?
Answer the man^ tell him its USEFUL.
James 2
26For just as the body without
the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.
James 2
8If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF,” you are doing well.
The guy who invented faith alone, wanted to get rid of the book of James, gee I wonder why.
"In a word St. John’s Gospel and his first epistle, St. Paul’s epistles, especially Romans, Galatians, and Ephesians, and St. Peter’s first epistle are the books that show you Christ and teach you all that is necessary and salvatory for you to know, even if you were never to see or hear any other book or doctrine. Therefore St. James’ epistle is really an epistle of straw, compared to these others, for it has nothing of the nature of the gospel about it. " -- Martin Luther (LW 35:362)
Same guy who thought of other horrible ideas like not killing Jews is a sin. Wrote a book called:
On the Jews and Their Lies
On the Jews and Their Lies - Wikipedia
As yourself why would anyone be so oppose the BIBLICAL phrase "faith working through love"?
Galatians 5
6For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.
God is LOVE and if you need to undermine Christianity LOVE is enemy #1.
We do not obsess over salvation. Salvation is not the priority.
Love God is the priority. They say Loving God is not going to save you.
I'm telling you so what!? I rather Love God
