And yet again, you preach a works based salvation. One that is dependent on what you accomplish - not on what Christ accomplished. You give lip service to the Holy Spirit while placing the burden of law-based works upon believers. Your gospel is one where you share the glory of your salvation with Jesus based upon your performance. Yet your ilk can never tell us how much/many good works are sufficient to "prove" one is saved.
Paul called your kind out in scripture - you are a Judaizer.
And yes, belief is all that is required for salvation. Not your belief/works hodgepodge.
Again,
you fail to recognize the difference between WHAT WE DO and WHAT CHRIST DOES. The work is HIS. WE are not talking about our own works. We are talking about Christ's work in us. He is the Vine, we are the branches. He produces the fruit.
For example, if one believes in the perserverance of the saints, he or she is not saying that we need to try REAL HARD to keep or retain our salvation, or we need to need to maintain a certain number of good works to be or remain saved. That is a gross misrepresentation of the doctrine. Perserverance of the saints teaches that true faith perserveres. If it does not perservere, it is not true faith.
1 John 2:19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us: but they went out, that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
It is possible to profess to know God and deny Him in what we do.
Titus 1:16-They profess that they know God; but in
works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every
good work reprobate.
As far as good works, we do not teach that good works bring salvation.
Rather, we teach that salvation is meant to bring good works.
Ephesians 2:10- For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus
unto good works, w
hich God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
Created in Christ Jesus unto good works. Workmanship is the greek word "poiema" where we get the word "poem" from. God is writing a poem with our lives, and He is going to finish the poem He is writing.
Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that
he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Philippians 2: 12 Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. 1
For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
Titus 3:8- This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that
they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are
good and profitable unto men.
Not good works to be saved or stay saved. Good works BECAUSE we are saved.
By your definition, Paul was a Judaizer. Paul was no Judaizer, Budman, and neither is preacher 4 truth.