I never mentioned a works salvation. Salvation is by faith. But your Bible says in James 2:14 (NKJV) — 14What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? (The “no” here is clearly implied). . . . 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
Like I said with my first post — it’s not hard to understand unless you want a easy do nothing salvation — faith is what is required, but a faith that is alive and not dead. I’m not saying anything controversial, and very in line with the Bible.
You can twist it if you’d like, but an easy and dead faith will not save you.
My response was in regards to your wanting to mix having faith in Jesus Christ alone and keeping the law. The two don't mix. Not by works, Not by works, Not by works has to be drilled into the hearts and minds of men.
You either get God's blessings and go to heaven by having total dependence and faith in the finished work of Jesus Christ on your behalf or you try to get there by your own righteousness.
You can not have it both ways.
it’s not hard to understand unless you want a easy do nothing salvation
What if a Bible believing Christian has a condition of like Stephen Hawking, I think you would agree that someone like that is not able to perform as well as most people. Is that invalid person confined in that wheelchair and unable to speak any less saved than a missionary in the deepest Congo, trying to preach the Gospel? Or will that invalid Christian person get less from God because that person can't perform as well as others?
It is in the heart of man to want more by working more, that is great in the secular unsaved world, but not in God's Kingdom.
If someone is trying to get more from God by working harder, keeping more laws, reading more Bible verses, visiting more prisoners, feeding more poor people or praying longer than the next guy, he will eventually find that his heart is not right with God at all.
The teaching that the more you do for God the more God will bless you is a false teaching put out by those in the Prosperity Gospel, and it is akin to witchcraft.
I know people love recognition for what they do for God and how great their faith is, especially compared to that Christian down the street, right? But unfortunately they don't get the credit for it, God does.
God produces the fruit not us, we are simply called to bear it. Which means hold the fruit that God produced.