...What is the role of faith and works in the mystery of our salvation? ...
Sanctification is word you're looking for.Over the last couple of nights, my neighbor and I have been discussing this very issue. He has come to the same conclusion in spite of having come from a tradition which emphasized marching the aisle, praying the 'repeat after me', being baptized, and considering yourself saved. My perspective is that the process necessarily contains all its parts and regardless of how you define and explain, there is a process lasting the duration of your life which either does or does not happen, and if it does not happen, you are on the wrong path.
Sanctification is word you're looking for.
Not really. It is half of the question being explored. Are you at the point of making a declaration of faith and/or being baptized saved followed by a lifelong period of sanctification or is the initial declaration/action merely the first step in the process which isn't over until you have made it to death still following Christ? It easily devolved into the same type of circular argument you get with arguing whether or not you can lose your salvation in which some argue you can while others will argue that you cannot lose it and if you go completely astray it stands in evidence you were never genuinely saved in the first place.
That’s why, when our time comes and we stand before the throne of judgment, I imagine that God will only need to ask one question: “What do you want?” And we, for the first time, will be forced to answer honestly. I fear that a great many of us will have no choice but to look back at Him and say, “Myself, Lord. Only myself.” Yet I pray, and I have hope, that you and I will be able to answer, with gratitude and joy, “You, Lord. Only you.” And no matter what answer we give, God’s response will be the same: “So be it.”
I read an interesting blog post by Matt Walsh the other day where he was talking about what it really means to be in Heaven with God. Towards the end of the article he supposes God could sum up what you have in your heart by a simple question:
REFLECTION
We should not desire the death of a sinner, but his repentance. Nothing grieves the Lord more, Who suffered on the Cross for sinners, then when we pray to Him for the death of a sinner and thereby to remove him from our path. It happened that the Apostle Carpus lost his patience and began to pray that God send down death upon two sinful men; one a pagan and the other an apostate from the Faith. Then the Lord Christ Himself appeared to Carpus and said: "Strike me; I am prepared to be crucified again for the salvation of mankind." St. Carpus related this event to St. Dionysius the Areopagite and he wrote it down and gave it to the Church as a lesson to all, that prayers are needed for sinners to be saved and not for them to be destroyed, "for the Lord is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance" (2 Peter 3:9).
2 Timothy 2:15 | View whole chapter | See verse in context
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Luke 6:16 Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor. Matthew 27:5 departed, and went and hanged himself. Luke 10:37 Go, and do thou likewise.
The Point is that we must READ and UNDERSTAND the Bible in order to know the context in which God intends for us to act. The entire Bible is required if you want to complete the OODA loop of life.
That's an interesting concept.Without the Bible there is no YHWH God.
Without the Bible there is no YHWH God.
ETA: A, You disagree with nearly everything, me thinks ye protest much.