No they haven't. They have been spun away. No sale. You guys don't understand the scripture and run away from it. "See that by works a man is justified; and not by faith only?" shouldn't require any "explanations", it means what it says.
That's why I love debating you guys, you make it SO easy. So "us guys" are the ones who run away from the understanding of Scripture? How about those who pull one verse, out of context, and then deny a ream of other verses that countermand their choice verse? Okay, you say a man is "justified by works"? Well, tell me how you then "explain" this:
Romans 3:23-26
23For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
24Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
26To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.