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THE QUESTION
Good Works
What's more important from a faith perspective? Being saved? Or doing good works?
Posted by
Sally Quinn and Jon Meacham on June 8, 2007 5:31 AM
FROM THE PANEL
We Need God
Without God we can neither save the world nor save ourselves.
Posted by Thomas G. Bohlin, on June 12, 2007 9:24 AM
Two Sides of the Same Coin
The faithful followers of Jesus must respond as Jesus would want us to.
Posted by Bob Edgar, on June 12, 2007 9:19 AM
Natural Companions
Mere declaration of belief is not enough to merit salvation.
Posted by Michael Otterson, on June 12, 2007 8:12 AM
Works as a Response to Grace
It is the assurance of salvation and the gratitude that flows from it that has motivated Christians through the centuries.
Posted by Charles "Chuck" Colson, on June 12, 2007 7:44 AM
Sophie’s Choice
Being forced to choose between “being saved” or “doing good works” is presenting a false dichotomy.
Posted by Thomas J. Reese, S.J., on June 12, 2007 6:40 AM
Both/And not Either/Or
Paul's words should have been enough to end the Reformation delusion of any “faith’ versus “works” dichotomy.
Posted by John Dominic Crossan, on June 11, 2007 8:57 AM
To be Saved is Human, to Do Good Divine
In Judaism, good deeds are intrinsically connected with holiness and the Divine.
Posted by Adin Steinsaltz, on June 11, 2007 7:31 AM
DO Unto Others
Good works, carrying out God's wishes on this earth, is why we are here in the first place.
Posted by Julia Neuberger, on June 11, 2007 5:58 AM
Start by Understanding Salvation
We aren't saved BY good works but we are saved FOR good works.
Posted by Nicholas T. Wright, on June 8, 2007 9:49 AM
Belief and Behavior Inseparable
I think the Bible is pretty clear that faith and works are inseparable, though I’m enough a creature of the Reformation to hold that good works do not earn salvation. Martin Luther (following St. Paul) believed that good works would...
Posted by Randall Balmer, on June 8, 2007 8:11 AM
Get Saved, Then Get Busy
A genuinely saved person loves God so much that that person desires to do good unto others.
Posted by Cal Thomas, on June 8, 2007 6:59 AM
FEATURED COMMENTS
falantedios: One problem I find with questions like these is that the Bible doesn't answer them. In fact, it doesn't even acknowledge that there is a ten...
Maxine Turner, Emerita Ga Tech: The Founding Fathers were Deists, not Christians as people are mis-using their faith today. They lived in the Age of Reason.
In the lat...
David: Ephesians 2:8-10
8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works,...
