rogerg, just read the verses and quit rejecting what God tells you:
Romans 1:
15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it [the gospel of Christ] is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
17 For therein [in the gospel of Christ] is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
From faith to faith – not from works to faith or from faith to works ... from faith to faith. the life of the born again one begins in faith and the born again one is to continue to live by faith alone.
Your error is your belief that faith is "man's work" when Scripture clearly tells us faith is not works:
Romans 4:
2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
What Romans 4:5 tells us is that faith is not works and faith is counted for righteousness today just as it was in Abraham's day ... and even before Abraham for we know that Abel obtained witness that he was righteous through his offering by faith - Heb11:4.
READ YOUR BIBLE!!!
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Romans 1:
15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also.
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it [the gospel of Christ] is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
17 For therein [in the gospel of Christ] is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
From faith to faith – not from works to faith or from faith to works ... from faith to faith. the life of the born again one begins in faith and the born again one is to continue to live by faith alone.
Your error is your belief that faith is "man's work" when Scripture clearly tells us faith is not works:
Romans 4:
2 For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.
3 For what saith the scripture? Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.
4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
5 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
What Romans 4:5 tells us is that faith is not works and faith is counted for righteousness today just as it was in Abraham's day ... and even before Abraham for we know that Abel obtained witness that he was righteous through his offering by faith - Heb11:4.
READ YOUR BIBLE!!!
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The "him" to whom righteousness was accounted was Christ, not Abraham.
Anyway, just to keep it simple, I'm asking you what you think. Do you think salvation is of man or God?