I was thinking of what to write, unsure what should I start 1st with. And decided on this one as its been bugging me for a while, I even left the related webpages open in my browser for more than a week but never got to reading them. Why? I have a minor case of insomnia and think all kinds of stuff. And sometimes when I decide to entertain a thought, it gets bigger and bigger as it incoperates lots of other things. Which then leads to more stuff which equates into no sleep. :S As I’m writing at the 4th line of the 3rd paragraph, i already thought of 2 related things i should blog about. just 4 lines! Those ° you see later is to remind me to post something about it.
Now, I ‘collect’ sayings that are useful to apply to life in my head, among of them is a Christian one “Works is the evidence of Faith”. A few weeks ago, it suddenly popped back into my head and I was thinking about it and did a basic research.
“Salvation by Faith”. This can be found at John 3:18 and 8:24. It seems all you have to do is believe in God, and have Faith. Simple eh?° Then how about Works? Is someone who believes in and to a certain extend, put their Faith in God automatically granted a pass to Heaven?° Sounds a bit too easy.
2 Corinthians 13:5 states that we should ‘test’ our Faith to ourselves. I’m guessing its kinda like a stress-test to see if its still there. 
Anyway, how else can you test your Faith besides how you live your life? This is where Works come in. Now there is a diffrence between Dead Faith and Alive Faith. James 2:14 says that Dead Faith cannot give you salvation. This is explained later in James 2:19 where he says even the demons believe in God. Makes sense, why fear something weaker and/or imaginary?
Right, we gotta work for it now. But does that mean that Christianity is a Works = Salvation belief? *Pause Post* I have always liked the fact that the Bible said that Faith will get you Salvation. And the fact that having an active Faith means you would naturally do good works and so on. As opposed to majority of other beliefs, religions and followings which instead, dictates how you should live with lots of rules. Doing Works = having Faith instead of having Faith = doing Works. The latter makes more sense imo, as I know/seen Works not equaling Faith.° *Unpause Post*
1 Corinthians 13:2 tells us that we are nothing if we do not exercise our Faith, while Romans 3:28 says that “For we maintain that a man is justified by faith apart from observing the law. (NIV)” and Galations 5:22-23 tells us what kinds of Works we can expect from having Faith. Ephesians 2:8-9 gives the most obvious answer “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast. (NIV)” So, we can agree that Faith and Works are important parts of our lives, but any amount of Works isn’t as important as the presence of Faith.
I have modded the saying into “Works without Faith is Dead as Faith without Works is also dead. But Works by Faith is as True as Works being the evidence of exercised Faith.” Hope my grammar’s right on this.
Links:
A Constructive Look at Faith and Good Works
Interesting Read about 3 types of Faith
