The whole "faith vs. works" dilemma comes from replacing (chas vechalilah!) G-d's laws and rituals with those of chr*stianity. For almost five hundred years now Catholics (and Orthodox) have been trying to explain to Protestants why Jewish rituals don't "work" while chr*stian ones do.
All this trouble would be saved by merely admitting that G-d had already spoken and chr*stianity was never necessary.
I don’t mean to disrespect you, ZC, but I’m not interested in debating you. You ignored every premise of my original work to insert your own patently false assertions of what I believe, and your own beliefs are far outside the framework of this discussion. I responded to what I did just to reiterate one particular point.