[Elsie]

"Believing" is certainly necessary... but it's not sufficient;

SAVED! by Faith

 

 

 

kept by works

[paladinan]

Elsie wrote:

SAVED! by Faith. kept by works

Er... I'll need to ask you to clarify: when you say "kept" by works, do you mean to imply that one can lose one's salvation after first gaining it? (I.e. Do you reject the idea of "once saved, always saved" [OSAS]?) The reason I ask is that there are many OSAS believers on this thread alone (some of whom I'm debating), and it'll get very confusing very quickly to have two "camps" of Protestants--one OSAS, one non-OSAS--trying to refute the Catholic position with two contradictory sets of arguments!

But as to your point... have you read the Epistle of St. James? "You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone. (James 2:24) Unless you're somehow suggesting that one can be saved without being justified, I think you've made a mistake, here.