[the_conscience]

Well now, that's fascinating!

Let's compare annalex's words with the Scripture he posted.

annalex:

Yet, it is by the works that we are justified and saved, as the Scripture plainly teaches.

Scripture:

8 For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, for it is the gift of God; 9 Not of works, that no man may glory.

Now I may be having one of those theological fantasies but it appears to me that I see a direct contradiction between what annalex claims and what Scripture states.

[annalex]

Yes...

What compelled you to omit the concluding verse from Eph. 2?

And what happened to Romans, Matthews and James that are also making the same point I made?

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Well now, that's fascinating! Let's compare annalex's words with the Scripture he posted.

"For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned." -- Matthew 12:37