First you said we’re meant to, than change the tune to have to . So how many works do we have to do to be saved?. 1Jn5: 13 These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. Don’t use devil quote where even they believe. They’re not candidates, or do not qualify. They’ve been expelled from heaven period. Or let’s see James. James’ point and his thesis given in James 2:14; is that you have to have works for your faith to be productive; you have to have works for your faith to be useful. If you have faith but you don’t have works, then basically what you have is a saving faith only, which is a wonderful thing to have because at least you’re not going to hell, amen?, so there isn’t anything wrong with just having saving faith by itself, but James says that God wants more from us; He wants to get us to a point where we don’t just have our fire insurance paid up because we trusted in Christ for salvation, but He actually wants to use our lives to advance His purposes. So, He wants our faith to become useful; mature. So, “faith without works is dead” - if you’re looking at this, saying, ‘Oh, I hope I’m a Christian.’ by demonstrating that you have enough good works is not James’ point; that’s not what James is dealing with. You’re forcing James to ask and answer a question that James isn’t interested in. What James is dealing with is faith that exists, that is real - how does it now become productive in the life of the child of God? What he is dealing with here is the usefulness of faith. Works accompany useful faith; he isn’t getting into the question of the existence of faith; he is assuming the readers have faith; now he wants them to become useful to God in daily life and in practical righteousness. Works without faith is non-existent.