"...you are quite incorrect that all that the healed folks did in the Gospel was “believe” and be cured without doing anything. The blind man in John 9 had mud and spit put in his eyes and was told to go wash in the pool of Siloam, for example. Suppose he were to refuse to wash, as Our Lord told him? Do you think he would have been saved?" Luke 8:43-48 says, "And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her. She came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak, and immediately her bleeding stopped. 'Who touched me?' Jesus asked. When they all denied it, Peter said, 'Master, the people are crowding and pressing against you.' But Jesus said, 'Someone touched me; I know that power has gone out from me.' Then the woman, seeing that she could not go unnoticed, came trembling and fell at his feet. In the presence of all the people, she told why she had touched him and how she had been instantly healed. Then he said to her, 'Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.'"
Maybe her works were that she walked up to Him and touched His cloak. Maybe her works were that she withdrew from Him trying to go unnoticed. Maybe her works were that she came back tembling and fell at his feet. All He said was, 'Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.'
Then he said to her, 'Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace.'" Well, you're switching parables on me now. :)
Of course Christ says faith is what saves. I'm not disputing that whatsoever. I'm disputing the claim that faith is the ONLY thing that saves. The blind man at the pool of Siloam had faith...and, to ask my question again, what if he had refused to obey Christ's instructions on how and where to wash? The man who has faith but does not cooperate with the will of God is not saved. I think that's clear.