Faith Without Works Is Dead of course we all do not believe that.
At the same time God imputes righteousness to this converted sinner, and deems him or her to be as righteous as Christ. This is possible because God clothes this person with the "robe of righteousness". This is a spiritual reality based solely upon the grace of God and the finished work of Christ (who died for our sins and rose again for our justification).
Unfortunately this truth blows the minds of too many Christians (let alone the unconverted), since it goes totally against the grain of humanistic thinking.
Good works follow conversion, and if they are absent it means that there was no genuine conversion. But good works do not maintain salvation, which is by grace through faith.
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