The Bizarre and Dangerous Teachings of the Grace Evangelical Society The way in which the English word save (sozo in the Greek text) is used by James is a point of severe controversy. We wish to begin our examination with James 2:14 as a starting point. There are principally three very distinct ways to understand James 2:14. There is the Roman Catholic interpretation, the Grace Evangelical view, and the Reformed position. One’s elucidation of James 2:14 will affect the great doctrines of salvation and sanctification. The manner in which God saves along with the resulting place of works in the life of a believer is the foundation of Christian theology. Both of these come into play as we contemplate the use of sozo in James. The Translations There is a difference in the way translators have rendered James 2:14. The more modern translations have opted for something like, “Can that kind of faith save him?” Or, “Can such a faith save him?” This translation opens the door to understanding James as teaching that there are at least two kinds of faith. One kind saves a man and another kind does not. However different translations like the King James and the New King James translate James 2:14 simply as, “Can faith save him?” The last clause of James 2:14 is awkward in English. It would read something like this: “not able the faith to save him?” To transform this into an English question the translators could leave out or retain the Greek article of the Greek text. Often time articles are left out in the translation of the Greek text into English. The King James translators elected to leave out the article and ended up translating “Can faith save him?”
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Larry Wessels graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, Texas in 1981 with a degree in Advertising & on May 16 of that same year he had a supernatural "born again" experience (John 3:3-8, Romans 8: 8-17, etc.) by a sovereign act of the God of the Bible. Larry has been...
