This video dismantles one of Christianity's most popular slogans: "faith alone."

We trace the phrase through Scripture and find it appears exactly once—in James 2:24, where it explicitly says we are NOT justified by faith alone. Yet this two-word slogan has been printed on countless coffee mugs, bumper stickers, and conference banners across the modern church.

The irony? The only time the Bible uses this phrase is to contradict it.

We examine what Jesus actually taught: feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, caring for the sick, visiting prisoners. These aren't suggestions—they're the criteria He uses to separate the sheep from the goats in Matthew 25. Try telling them that works don't matter.

Paul tells us to "work out your salvation with fear and trembling." James declares that "faith without works is dead" and notes that even demons believe. Jesus called His followers to take up their cross—not exactly effortless.

This video explores how "faith alone" requires an ever-growing list of qualifications: repentance, obedience, holiness, perseverance, transformation, and maybe baptism (depending on who you ask). That's not faith alone—that's faith with a whole entourage of theological backup dancers.

We also look at the early Church Fathers—Ignatius, Irenaeus, Clement, Polycarp—who learned directly from the apostles or their immediate disciples. Not one of them taught "faith alone." It took 1,500 years and one Augustinian monk to popularize the phrase.

If you're planting your flag on "faith alone" as THE gospel, you're standing against James, Jesus, Paul, the early Church Fathers, the Councils, and every Christian tradition before the Reformation—all for a slogan the Bible explicitly rejects.

Real faith moves. Real faith acts. Real faith costs something.

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