Reply #10: Deeds of faith, not works of law

[sandnsea]

It's been way too long since I studied some of this, but if I recall, when Paul was speaking to Jews he was talking about works required by Jewish Law. Speaking to Jews about faith and not Law isn't at odds with speaking about the actions of charity that come from faith. Actual charitable works of faith are necessary, but following dogmatic Law without faith is useless. There was a point in time when the complete Bible actually made sense to me, all at the same time. When you slap Christianity, particularly traditional Catholicism, over top of Orthodox Judaism (Jesus came to fulfil the Law) it tends to make perfect sense.

But then Judaism, Christianity and Muslim went bonkers all at the same time and I decided it was all a bunch of bunk.