Faith apart from works is head belief, and therefore dead belief.
Home “ What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but has no deeds? Can such faith save them? Suppose a brother or a sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and well fed,” but does nothing about their physical needs, what good is it? In the same way, faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead...As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead. ” [James 2:14-17,26] Faith apart from works is head belief, and therefore dead belief. T hese verses are commonly misused to support the heresy that we are saved by faith plus works. In other words, we must trust the Lord Jesus as our Savior, but that is not enough. We must also add to His redemptive work our own deeds of charity and devotion. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so th...