[Salvation]

**Good works are only such as God has commanded in His holy Word**

Knock me over with a feather. Protestants believe in good works?

[HarleyD]

Knock me over with a feather. Protestants believe in good works?

I believe it was Augustine that said it best about good works:

And what I said a little after,—'For it is ours to believe and to will, but it is His to give to those who believe and will, the power of doing good works through the Holy Spirit, by whom love is shed abroad in our hearts,'—is true indeed; but by the same rule both are also God's, because God prepares the will; and both are ours too, because they are only brought about with our good wills. And thus what I subsequently said also: 'Because we are not able to will unless we are called; and when, after our calling, we would will, our willing is not sufficient, nor our running, unless God gives strength to us that run, and leads us whither He calls us;' and thereupon added: 'It is plain, therefore, that it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy, that we do good works,'—this is absolutely most true.

A Treatise on the Predestination of the Saints

As Augustine knew, we are saved TO DO good works. We are not saved BY our good works.

Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

The confession of the thief was evidence of his faith. His confession was his good work which was the result of that faith. He was created in Christ Jesus for good works. After all, we're still talking about it 2,000 years later, aren't we?