Questions Protestants Can't Answer #1 - Is a Dead Body Really a Body?

John Martignoni, President and Founder of the Bible Christian Society, introduces a new video series called Questions Protestants Can't Answer. This series will explore questions to which Protestants cannot provide a logically consistent, theologically consistent, scripturally consistent answer.

In this first episode, John explores the question, Is a Dead Body Really a Body? and looks to Scripture for the answer - as well as exploring the implications for those who believe in the doctrine of sola fide or salvation by faith alone.

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[calomie]

2nd. I want to split hairs about your characterizing "salvation by faith alone." Most protestants would want to say that we are declared just, or in right standing before God, by God Himself by His grace alone, through faith/trust alone. But for the Protestant, this isn't the only facet of their Soteriology. Protestants also believe that the Holy Spirit regenerates us upon indwelling us so that we are reoriented in our desires, hopes, and will. This plays out as the process of sanctification.

[CrimsonCatholic]

@calomie You haven't told me anything I don't know about Protestant belief. Furthermore, you haven't answered the question.

[MRGV7373]

A dead body is a dead body. Faith is the starting place of salvation. Works don't save, they are the results of faith. If no work from a person than there is no faith. Faith with out works means that the person does not have the HS and shows that the person has no faith. Understanding who Jesus is then faith that Jesus died for your sins, then Baptism and works of the HS should happen. If no works, no conversion. Non-RCC believe that faith is salvation leading to works. Same difference.

[CrimsonCatholic]

@MRGV7373 In other words, you can't answer the question straight up, can you? James 2:26 makes an analogy between faith and works and the body and the soul. You say faith without works isn't faith. James 2:26 says it is, just that it is dead...like a body without a soul is dead. So, your answer is unscriptural. Which means that sola fide, faith alone, cannot save you, because faith alone, is dead faith.

[definitiongrace]

Very confusing question I'd say. First I'm Southern Baptist (title only, if it worships Jesus, I'm that) and I have never heard of such saved by Faith alone nonsense. "For by Grace you have been saved through Faith." Eph 2:8a. Although I do agree 100% with James 2:26 (and I do) if a person accepts Christ on his (or her) death bed, dies, gets to the gates of heaven and the guy says "You were saved through Faith by Grace...but no works, sorry turn around." It undermines the gift of God's Grace

[CrimsonCatholic]

@definitiongrace You are inserting things into what I said, that I did not say. You are also inserting things into the Bible that it does not say. Interesting statement, "If it worships Jesus, I'm that." Catholics worship Jesus, so are you Catholic? No. Lutherans worship Jesus, so are you Lutheran? No. Does doctrine not matter to you? Does truth not matter to you? If different people worship Jesus, yet believe different and contradictory doctrines...does truth matter?

[medusa210562]

WE are saved by Grace alone, faith and works are an equal and simmultaneous responce. Even the thief on the cross believed and spoke to Jesus. Where doesn't is say in the bible that the thief on the cross had to suffer to be saved. Like purgatory etc etc etc. You seem to me to have a good heart mr. martignoni. I hope you can see I am not antagonist to you, only to catholic lies. God bless

[medusa210562]

5 So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. 6 And if by grace, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace Romans 11:5-6

[medusa210562]

However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace. acts 20:24

[medusa210562]

'being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus' (Romans 3:24)

[medusa210562]

sola fide doesn't save me, works dont save me. What saves me is faith in His grace that produces works. NOW IF JESUS HAD NOT DIED ON THE CROSS. IT WOULDN'T MATTER HOW MUCH FAITH OR HOW MUCH WORKS I WOULD, SO I AM SAVED BY GRACE ALONE. YES IF I RESPOND WITH FAITH AND WOKS BY ONLY BY HIS GRACE I AM SAVED. THAT NO ONE SHOULD BOAST.

[medusa210562]

Mattew 5 is not talking about purgatory, If such doctrine was biblical the bible would talk about it. Mathew 5 is simply saying you cannot get away with sin, any amount of sin. But by grace I am forgiven and I don't go to prison at all, at all. Jesus paid it all.

[medusa210562]

Faith alone doctrine is against the extreme saved by works of Catholicism, so extreme that people paid indulgences for their loved dead ones. Now you want to show yourself as christian, WE ARE SAVED BY GRACE, nor by faith nor by works. Works and faith are an equal response. Where catholics go wrong, (as I was catholic) they think they can contribute to their salvation with works. LONG PENANCE. FLAGELLATION. MORTIFICATION. SECLUTION. ETC. ETC. ETC.

[medusa210562]

why doesn't the pope stop these philippinos from piercing their hands, or excommunicate them. I am talking about the Philippinos that pierce their hands at eater time on the cross. I compare that to braking all 10 commandments at one time, nothing more blasphemous

[toddseiler]

"Good works follow if you have faith." If good works follow from faith..... that makes it dependent upon faith.....This would make it impossible for an atheist to do good works since he doesn't have faith. Correct? No need to go searching through the bible to figure that this statement was a dumb one.