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Your arguments that we don’t have to even accept God’s gift are unbiblical.

“Justification by faith alone?” Sounds like a work to me. Even if it’s a decision you or I make, it still must be done.

God cannot force us to make it. He cannot force us to confess, believe, repent, etc.

Faith without works is dead.

Stop with the nonsense that we don’t have to do anything to be saved.

You posted, "Your arguments that we don't have to even accept God's gift are unbiblical." And you can't even discern how false your assertion is! I have not written such a foolish assertion. You have conjured that deceit up to form a strawman you can attack. And again, even in forming that false assertion you fail to see how your mind is lost in the conflation you suffer under!

One more time:
Salvation is by faith alone in Christ alone. The act of faith in Jesus is an act of the will not the mind. Your deceived mind would read that as 'faith in Christ plus the physical act of adding baptism to the cross'.The Ultimate physical act was accomplished by Jesus on the cross.

In your pride of self you have been deceived into believing God requires you to add an additional physical act. THAT is not the Gospel of Grace!

Are you aware that Justification is not the same as snctification? Did you not know that one comes befotre the otyher and that Justifiction is something ONLY God can do for you and that He has told us tht He does this Justification for us based on faith alone in Christ alone, that not of any works lest you would boast of your assistance, thereby seeking favor based upon works? You have substituted the additional physical act of baptism for the physical actions of keeping the laws, a tactic used by the Judaisers, speciously.

Your 'just this one little extra act you must physically do' is the same lie at the heart of the Catholic oRG, where they command that their adherents follow a sacramental trail to OBTAIN salvation. Are you going to add purgatory to the 'one little deed you must do to obtain eternal life'?

What else are you hiding as required for the salvation you're selling?

***Faith without works is dead.***

So, one verse in James nullifies all that Paul said? You obviously do not understand whom James was writing to.

7But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter; 8(For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)

9And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.

3For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:

THERE IS NOT ONE PHYSICAL ACT YOU COULD DO TO INCREASE THE rIGHTEOUSNESS god IMPUTES TO THE One Who has Faith Alone in Christ Alone. In your arrogance and pride you want to argue with GOD, not me. And a little advice: don’t purposely twist the Word of God the way you purposely mischaracterized what I wrote. He won’t forgive you such a blatant heresy the way I have forgiven you for your foolishness of purposed deception.

Your arguments that we don’t have to even accept God’s gift are unbiblical.
“Justification by faith alone?” Sounds like a work to me. Even if it’s a decision you or I make, it still must be done.
God cannot force us to make it. He cannot force us to confess, believe, repent, etc.
Faith without works is dead.
Stop with the nonsense that we don’t have to do anything to be saved.

I don't believe any one said we don't have to do anything to get saved...I think the consensus is that we don't have to do anything to earn salvation...Believing is not works... Believing is not earning salvation...

I believe your (and your religion's) wisdom and God's wisdom on the matter are in two different solar systems...

Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Eph 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Grace is free...Faith is free...Salvation is free...

Rom 3:24 Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

Justified means saved...We have been deemed 'just'...FREELY...

Joh 5:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

Believing is not works...

Joh 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
Joh 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

And following Jesus is not works...
Believing and receiving something is not works...It's a free gift...If it was works we'd be able to brag about our achievement...