[xone]

So the Catholic and Protestant views on this are really not different.

But they are, from the article:

we must add to it good works and must be ready to confess it openly.

No, we add nothing to faith, it is a gift, as are the works that proceed from it. "The will and to do." The 'we must do' isn't something we can do apart from the direction of the Holy Spirit. It isn't through the will of man that he does acceptable works but of God, lest we boast of them.

[D-fendr]

Again, I don’t see the difference. Faith without works is dead.

It’s only when we try to separate them that the apparent difference occur.

[D-fendr]

The 'we must do' isn't something we can do apart from the direction of the Holy Spirit. It isn't through the will of man that he does acceptable works but of God,

We are saved by grace through faith. We must have faith. Is this something we can do apart from grace? No. Neither are good works. If you have a problem with we 'must,' then it applies to faith as well.