When Catholics are told they're justified by faith alone, so Catholicism is unbiblical,

the common response usually goes like this.

Sorry, Protestant, but the phrase faith alone only appears once in the Bible,

in James 24, where it says, a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.

Checkmate Protestants, or is it?

In today's episode, we're going to show why the common Protestant replies to the teaching in James Chapter 2 don't work.

But we'll also see how some Catholic applications of this verse misunderstand church teaching on what makes us righteous before God.

But before we do that, I need to address two things.

First, if you're watching this, I know you have

faith in the Council of Trent. But in the spirit of James chapter 2 versus 14 through 16,

what good does it do if you say to me, grow in subscribers and reach lots of people, but you don't

actually click the subscribe button or support us at trendhornpodcast.com. The Council of Trent cannot exist by faith alone.

So if you like our content, please support us. The second thing I need to address is that some

Catholics say that Martin Luther denied that the letter of James was scripture or that he

tried to remove it from the Bible because of its teachings on justification. The truth is that Luther walked really close to that line, but he didn't cross it.

He never tried to have James removed from the Bible, but he was not a fan of this letter.

Luther put it this way.

That epistle of James gives us much trouble, for the papists embrace it alone and leave out all the rest. Up to this point,

I have been accustomed just to deal with and interpret it according to the sense of the rest of

scriptures. If they will not admit my interpretations, then I shall make rubble also of it. I almost

feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kalenberg did. Luther was referring to an incident in the village of Kalenberg,

where a priest burned wooden statues of the apostles in order to provide warmth for a visiting Duchess.

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