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==Controversy==
==Controversy==
[[Image:David Christ on the Cross.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Christ on the Cross by [[Jacques Louis David]].]]
[[Image:David Christ on the Cross.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Christ on the Cross by [[Jacques Louis David]].]]
''See also:'' [[Works (theology)]]
As Paul is seen as specifically providing a formal treatise on the actual means of [[salvation]], not by the merit of our works but by "the gift of righteousness" (Rm. 5:17), it is often seen to be in tension (most particularly) with James 2, and has been abused by some as to mean that works are not necessary as an evidential outworking of saving faith, giving birth to ''[[antinomianism]]''.
As Paul is seen as specifically providing a formal treatise on the actual means of [[salvation]], not by the merit of our works but by "the gift of righteousness" (Rm. 5:17), it is often seen to be in tension (most particularly) with James 2, and has been abused by some as to mean that works are not necessary as an evidential outworking of saving faith, giving birth to ''[[antinomianism]]''.