That was the most roundabout way I've ever read to make this simple point. However, the Catholic teaching of "faith and works" by no means implies or presumes that people can find salvation by doing good deeds, or without the grace of God. This is the twisting of words and doctrine perpetrated by Protestants and Fundamentalists, (heretics all), that insidiously attempts to present Catholic doctrine as something other than it is. They set up the straw-man of "works", then attack the straw man as though it were Catholic doctrine. If the Catholic Church taught that good works saves a soul, then there would be no need for priests, the Sacraments, or to teach about Jesus Christ, the Bible, or the gospel. The Church would simply become like the Salvation Army and do good deeds and buy a ticket to Heaven. But such teaching is not the case, and never was.
Taking all of those Scriptural verses alone and trying to make a case from each of them is called "Fundamentalism", which is the greatest Protestant apostasy of the last four centuries. Scripture must be taken in its entirely, the whole picture, or else you present an illusion, (as Satan attempted to do with Jesus when he tempted Him in the desert with Bible verses). Any text without a context is always a pretext.
To truly understand the Bible, particularly the New Testament, one must look not only at the text, but at how the early Church Fathers, Saints and Bishops, (who were taught by the Apostles and the disciples of the Apostles), understood and wrote about the Bible. This is called TRADITION, as Saint Paul said we must follow in 2 Thess. 2:15 and 2 Thess. 3:6).
Saint Paul tells us clearly that we must put our Christian faith and gifts into practice, and that we have a role in our own salvation:
"Practice these duties, devote yourself to them, so that all may see your progress. Take heed to yourself and to your teaching; hold to that, for by so doing you will save both yourself and your hearers. (I Timothy 4: 15-16).
In 2 Peter we read on two occasions that self interpreting the Bible is dangerous to our souls, and we are warned against this practice. (2 Peter 1:20 / 2 Peter 3:16).
Yours is a doctrine of pride and disobedience, for the Bible demands that we act on our faith and that we do certain things that display our faith and our obedience to Christ's doctrines. Hear what Saint Paul says:
"---inflicting vengeance upon those who do not know God and upon those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They shall suffer the punishment of eternal destruction and exclusion from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might" (2 Thess. 1: 8-9)
Again, Paul tells us that our faith and our souls can be lost if we do not remain vigilent:
"For you have need of endurance, so that you may do the will of God and receive what is promised". (Hebrews 10:36)
Listen to what Mark writes about your diluted theology in his gospel:
""Well did Isiah prophesy of you hyppocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me'. (Mark 7:6) Nothing could be stated more clearly that being a true Christian entails doing and action, and not just some artificial profession of faith.
Though the Bible is great for teaching and quoting, it alone does not open the eyes of the believer. In fact, the Bible itself reveals this to us when Jesus was walking the road to Emmaus with the two believers. Jesus "opened the scriptures" to them, yet they still did not recognize Him. It was only when Jesus gave them the Eucharist, (when He broke the bread and blessed it, and gave them to eat), that "their eyes were opened". (Luke 24: 32-35)
But Protestants and Fundamentalists, unfortunately, do not eat the Eucharist as Jesus revealed this life-giving Sacrament in John 6:56. This is the reason for their spiritual blindness. The first Protestants just could not accept that they were truly eating the flesh of Jesus and drinking His blood, so they "departed from Jesus, and walked with him no more". (Jonh 6:66)
"He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood abides in me, and I in him. As the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats me will live because of me. This is the bread which came down from heaven, not such as the fathers ate and died; he who eats this bread will live for ever." This he said in the synagogue, as he taught at Caperna-um. Many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, "This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?" But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples murmured at it, said to them, "Do you take offense at this? Then what if you were to see the Son of man ascending where he was before? It is the spirit that gives life, the flesh is of no avail; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But there are some of you that do not believe." For Jesus knew from the first who those were that did not believe, and who it was that would betray him. And he said, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father." After this many of his disciples drew back and no longer went about with him.