In the verse you are responding to I showed you where the deception is: two verses are quoted and the third one, teaching the distinctly Catholic doctrine is omitted from the quote; then again, half of a passage is quoted and the other, Catohlic part fo the passage is omitted. That is deceptive, there is no other word for it. What do you think was the reason to chop up quotes like that?
I know your journey there took you thru some bad experiences in former churches
What bad experiences? I visited many Protestant communities of faith to accompany my formerly Protestant wife and had a wonderful time, and met some truly wonderful people. Their theology is nonsense on sticks, but the people are very nice, the coffee is good, and some pastors can be very inspiring in their sermons. Interestingly, a typical Protestant sermon, I found out, is filled with exhortations to good works; how they combine that with their "faith alone" dogma is a mystery.
Why should good works surprise you? We believe they are the result of our justification. We do good works out of gratitude.
Simply because the good works honor and glorify God and are instrumental in leading others to Him. We do it for much the same reasons Christ did His good works.
We don't do them to earn salvation or to help earn salvation. We do them to please the Father who loves us and gave us salvation and as a witness to an hurting and dying and unbelieving world to His power to redeem. We show the ability of good to overcome evil.
We show our love for Him by being obedient but that does not earn us salvation or help us earn salvation. God saved us. We responded with obedience out of love and gratitude.