Re:Verse passage – James 2:14-26 (day three)
“Faith without works is dead.”
Certain domains attempt to acknowledge the way the universe presents itself so that a person might live according to reality. Mathematics readies one to act in accord with patterns that appear in nature so that building and banking and baking are possible, for instance. If such behaviors were not the aim, mathematics would have no reason to exist. Likewise — and even more essentially — faith attempts to acknowledge the spiritual realm so that a person might live according to reality. Faith readies one to understand that life is sustainable only by living — doing “works” — in a particular way. Without one person’s forgiving another, for instance, life would cease. If such actions were not the aim, faith would have no reason to exist. In this sense, not only is faith without works dead, so are human beings without works.
