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Eph. 2:8ff teaches salvation by grace alone, but not by faith alone, since it lists good works alongside the faith. “Grace Alone” is the correct Catholic doctrine.
The two solas are counterscriptural error, no matter how long you take to explain them. That is not “obsession” to point out gross error, especially on the thread where demands to point out the priesthood in the scripture were made and answered.

Eph 2:8 — For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:...

Faith is the vehicle that grace comes in on ..and that faith not self generated..but a gift of God..So God provides the means of grace and the grace... all for the Glory of God ..Soli Deo Gloria !!!!
Soli Deo Gloria !!! - The Glory of God Alone

Unwarranted confidence in human ability is a product of fallen human nature ... God's grace in Christ is not merely necessary but is the sole efficient cause of salvation. We confess that human beings are born spiritually dead and are incapable even of cooperating with regenerating grace. We reaffirm that in salvation we are rescued from God's wrath by his grace alone. It is the supernatural work of the Holy Spirit that brings us to Christ by releasing us from our bondage to sin and raising us from spiritual death to spiritual life. We deny that salvation is in any sense a human work. Human methods, techniques or strategies by themselves cannot accomplish this transformation. Faith is not produced by our unregenerated human nature.

INDEED.

WELL PUT.

THX.

Faith is the vehicle that grace comes in on ..and that faith not self generated..but a gift of God..So God provides the means of grace and the grace... all for the Glory of God ..Soli Deo Gloria !!!! Soli Deo Gloria !!! - The Glory of God Alone

Unwarranted confidence in human ability is a product of fallen human nature ... God's grace in Christ is not merely necessary but is the sole efficient cause of salvation. We confess that human beings are born spiritually dead and are incapable even of cooperating with regenerating grace. We reaffirm that in salvation we are rescued from God's wrath by his grace alone. It is the supernatural work of the Holy Spirit that brings us to Christ by releasing us from our bondage to sin and raising us from spiritual death to spiritual life. We deny that salvation is in any sense a human work. Human methods, techniques or strategies by themselves cannot accomplish this transformation. Faith is not produced by our unregenerated human nature.

Amen! That is historic, orthodox Christianity. That is the Gospel of Jesus Christ. That is liberty in this life and eternal contentment in the next.

that faith not self generated..but a gift of God [...] God's grace in Christ is not merely necessary but is the sole efficient cause of salvation

Strictly and grammatically speaking, Ehp. 2:8 says that grace is a gift of God, not faith. However, indeed both faith and good works come from God, to Whom alone is the glory. Thank you for stating the Catholic teaching for us. Abandon the mendacious shipwreck of Protestantism and come to Christ and His glorious Church, and you shall see the light.

AMEN! AMEN! AMEN!