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Originally Posted by Evangelical
You said in post #227 that the only work required is a mouth confession. Do you consider a mouth confession a good enough evidence of life change? I think I would.
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Like I said, it's not about legality. It's not a matter of what we think about someone else. What James was warning about was nominal faith. Head-faith instead of heart-faith.
I think there are people who intellectually accept that Jesus is the Savior, but haven't had a salvation experience. When I was a Catholic I was this type of person myself!
I believe that mouth confession with a truly open heart will result in salvation. But I recall a long time ago in our LC we had a gospel love feast. An elder preached the gospel and a guy got up and made a confession of "faith" and was "saved." Everyone rejoiced. Later the guy said he just faked it, that he didn't believe any of it and was just doing research. I don't think his "mouth confession" got him saved.