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Schindler's List: Whoever Saves One Life (James 2:14-17)

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Oskar Schindler was a war profiteer, a womanizer, a Nazi Party member. He became a rescuer. At the film's end, he weeps: "I could have got more... this car—ten people. This pin—two people." James writes: "Faith without works is dead." Schindler's faith—whatever form it took—became alive through action. He spent everything to save 1,100 Jews. The Talmud teaches: "Whoever saves one life saves the entire world." Schindler's transformation wasn't theological conversion; it was faith becoming flesh. What he believed about human dignity became what he did. And what he did cost him everything he had.

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