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>>665
>Ok so fait is the only thing necessary for salvation, but if you don't have the works it's a dead faith?
Yes, if your faith doesn't produce good works it's dead. "Dead" meaning inert, useless in the here-and-now. James isn't talking about eschatological salvation here.  
>Works which will be judged, but not in relation to salvation but something else?
In relation to rewards in heaven, yes. (Revelation 22:12)
>And why ought I trust you?
You shouldn't trust me, you should read the Bible yourself. 
>The one older than your fanclub for some thousand years.
The Pharisees were older than the Church as well. Should we eschew eating meat and cheese together because the "traditions of the elders" extrapolated a commandment against boiling a kid goat in its mothers milk? Truth, not age, is what matters in evaluating a doctrine. (Mark 7:6-8)

Explain Paul's consistent insistence across multiple epistles that faith, not works, save. I dealt with the one section in James, now it's your turn. If he didn't mean that, what did he mean?