James was writing to saved Jews. They'd already been saved and he wasn't talking about how to get saved. The Bible says that our works AFTER salvation earn us rewards in heaven. The more our works are worth, the more rewards. But, even if you do NO works, you're still saved and remember that cleaning toilets in heaven is far better than the highest place in hell.
As a practitioner of good works what are you working toward?
Do you have a grade that your working toward like in a pyramid company?
Since your good works have to be directed at men I wonder how the humanity that you are “working for or on” to Jack up your reward count and coup in heaven feel about being nothing more than objects in a scheme?
Is God so screwed up that He would design a system that depended on such predation?
I wonder how God feels about your use of his other created children as you use them to “earn crowns” at their expense?
Seems to me that your idea of good works are self centered and predatory. Get in with God so that you are rewarded. You gonna sit on the right hand or the left hand side?
