@Lisa: Your mistake is judging
Christianity by the deeds of other Christians.
James, nor the author, compromises and the author has written this series to point Christians to what Scripture says and speaks of in conducting church and thus, walking out
our Christianity by our deeds.
Not exact matches
I would submit that
by declaring forgiveness to and love for his executioners, before the
deed is done, he will have sown the seeds of
Christianity in many more hearts.
The dialog with dogma often looses the humanity of the issues they try to address and within the history of
Christianity some rather horrendous
deeds were done within a certain set of dogma set
by some rather influential writers.
He changed the monotheistic,
deeds based theology of the Jews into the faith - based, sactification
by grace, and human sacrificial atonement theolgy of
Christianity.