Roman philosophy after the Greeks and prior to the Christians was dominated by four schools of thought: the Stoics, the Skeptics, the Epicureans, and certain metaphysical Mystics. The Stoics got their name from the fact that they used to walk around philosophizing on the porch of the marketplace in Athens. The Greek word for porch…

This relationship is focused in verses 14-17 of chapter 2 of the letter of James where it says: “What does it profit, my brethren if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can this faith save him?” So faith by itself, if it has not works, is dead. The faith spoken of…