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James 2:20

First Nations Version

Are you the kind of shallow person who needs to be shown over and over again that faith without good deeds has no worth?

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In the same way that a body has no life without the spirit, so faith has no life without deeds.


In the same way, without deeds, faith by itself is dead.


For even though they knew him as Creator, they did not thank him or give him the honor he deserved. This empty way of thinking took hold of their foolish hearts and led them into darkness.


The people who see themselves as something when they are nothing have become their own trickster.


All who represent themselves as spiritual but do not keep their tongue under control are only fooling themselves—their spirituality is worthless.


There are many troublemakers with forked tongues and empty words. Most of them are from our own Tribal Members, flesh cutters who require others to participate in the cutting of the flesh ceremony.


For there are some who have wandered from this good path and turned aside to nothing but worthless talk.


Make sure no one steals your faith from you with fine-sounding words spoken with hollow tongues. These people make up their own traditions as they follow the lying spirits of the ways of this world, instead of simply trusting in the Chosen One.


So then, in Creator Sets Free (Jesus) the Chosen One, whether or not you participate in the cutting of the flesh ceremony does not matter. What matters is walking out our faith on the road of love.


Here is another way to see it. Good standing with the Great Spirit does not come by following our tribal law but by putting all our trust in what Creator has done for us.


How can anyone talk back to the Great Spirit? We are weak human beings with small minds who do not understand his ways. Does a clay pot say to its maker, “Why did you give me this shape?”





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