Faith is active and visible, not something that just occures "in your heart".

1. I will skip point 1, because you missed my point all together. You should not have skipped it. You should correct me since I missed it. At first it was the wind bending trees, then when I point out that is not necessarily the case all of the sudden the leaves appear that is moved. When I point out that is also not always the case then all of the sudden I missed it. The only point I am getting is that you conveniently change your story. 2. "If dead faith is not faith at all then why is it called dead "FAITH"? " When a man dies, we still call him a dead man, but we know that he is not capable of doing anything anymore. to be able, and effective, he must be alive. Faith is the same way. We say dead faith, to denote what is dead. It is inactive and worthless, and is not really faith at all. Your analogy is not very logical because faith continues after the body dies. The dead man ceases to exist as a man. Faith is not dependent on a person. So faith does not end when the man dies. So in fact, the "dead" faith keeps on exiting. 3. Anyone who can read English will understand that when someone asks a rhetorical question, the answer is obvious. I did not think you would resort to insulting a person"s intelligence: Anyone who can read English". As for James, he did not answer his own rhetorical question the way you say he did. 4. You take James 1:25 out of context. It does not contradict James 2. It restates it. I never said it contradicts James 2. It contradicts YOUR interpretation of James 2. You quote verses where faith and works were mixed but that changed when the Gospel we are saved under was revealed unto Paul. Before Paul the Gospel of the grace of God was not known to ANY of the disciples. Do you know what that means? It means all the scriptures about being baptized and receiving the Spirit and so on is not valid any more because the Gospel of the grace of God teaches that you cannot do any works. And again, you conveniently ignored my point that baptism was a requirement of the law and your word games do not change that. You site baptism as an "action" required for salvation when in fact it is a WORK. While Christ was on earth you could receive the Spirit by works and be saved by works. Paul says we receive the Spirit by faith without the works of the law (do I need to mention again that baptism is a requirement by law therefore a work of the law and not an "action"? ). It contradicts the favorite scripture: "be baptized and receive the Holy Spirit (my paraphrase)". And this is the reason why. It is because the one replaced the other one. Acts 20:24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God. 1 Corinthians 9:17 For if I do this thing willingly, I have a reward: but if against my will, a dispensation of the gospel is committed unto me. 5. Read 1:21-24. "Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness " I agree but to what end? It does not say do this to be saved. 6. Can you write your confession on paper? That, I believe, would fulfill the spirit of the command, especially if you were unable to speak. So in other words, other people can do something for you to perform the "actions" and you do not have to do it by yourself like you repeatedly stated when you say "we" have to do this or that in order to be saved. 7. Where did I say that you can be saved without confession in any circumstances? I said if we do not confess Jesus, He will not confess us, therefore we cannot be saved without confessing Jesus (period). You are misquoting me. This is what I said: The point was that even now all people do not get saved by faith or calling on the name of God. You said it was the ONLY way because you said "WITHOUT (my emphasis) confessing that Jesus is the Son of God we will not be saved". Here you contradict yourself acknowledging salvation without confession in certain circumstances. Did you notice? I said CERTAIN not ANY circumstances like you claim. You said in Round 3 " "Babies do not need salvation". If babies do not need salvation but go to heaven then they CAN be saved without confession. 8. Free can also mean open and available to anyone. But as I have said before, just as will a will and testament, conditions do not negate the freeness of an inheritance. As heirs with Christ, we must obey the Will that He left to inherit the blessings of that will. First you deny that "free gift" is in the Bible and now you want to conveniently change its meaning just a little bit to cast doubt that it might not be free. Again you use semantics. If something is open then you do not have to do anything to open it now do you? If it is available then it means you do not have to do anything to make it available. In all instances you are free from doing something. 9. You are confusing yourself. Faith includes actions in obedience to the commands of God. Without those actions, there is no faith. You mean works right? not actions as I pointed out before. Remember baptism? A law requirement? And just one other thing, when I mentioned free gift you said the word "free" is not in the Bible. The absence of the word was the reason you said I was wrong in saying that you do not have to do anything to get the gift. So here is my question, based on your logic, show me in all the verse you quoted where the word "ACTION" is written. Not the inference of action but where the word "action" is physically written. After all, if actions are required the Bible will not be silent about it right? If the word "action" is absent then it is not required. Your logic not mine. 10. Therefore, we don't do something "apart from faith to gain salvation". Those commanded actions are part of the faith that brings salvation. And no, that is not earning salvation. That is being obedient to the will of our Lord and Master. You do something to gain something and then it is not counted as earning it? How about receiving compensation for doing something? Or getting a reward for doing something? Is that better? The fact is you are still doing something for it and therefore the gift is not a gift. It is conditional. Conditional based on something you can do. 11. So you do not agree with James 2:24? "You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only. " I never said I do not agree. I have explained to you the context and I see it of no use to explain it to you again. I already addressed this in the beginning of this rebuttal as well. 12. How will I know that you lie about your belief? You don't obey the commands of the one in whom you claim to believe. I can do the commands and fake it. Observable works is no guarantee that someone is saved. 13. No, we are not under the Abrahamic Covenant. The Mosaic Covenant was a renewal of the Abrahamic Covenant. Abraham was told that ALL the nations, not just Israel, will be blessed in him. When was this covenant fulfilled? It was fulfilled when the new Covenant through Jesus Christ came. It is through Jesus Christ that ALL nations can now become adopted sons of God. It was not a one time event because people from ALL nations are still being saved based on Abraham"s covenant. That is why I said it is "CONCURRENT" with the New. You have serious issues to sort out claiming we are not "under" the Abrahamic Covenant because the New is a fulfillment of it. 14. Here we go again. You State: "As you can see from the list above and reading the associated verses, these actions are commanded to be done before salvation is given. They do NOT EARN salvation""(my emphasis) "It is simply something THAT MUST BE DONE TO QUALIFY to receive the gift". If you do something in order to qualify for something then you earned it. Definition of earn transitive verb 1 a : to receive as return for effort and especially for work done or services rendered b : to bring in by way of return 2 a : to come to be duly worthy of or entitled or suited to b : to make worthy of or obtain for . https://www.merriam-webster.com...