The bible is clear on the subject......I assume you can read right?
It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe<----Do tell...what in this verse leads to salvation?
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.<----Do tell...what in this verse leads to salvation?
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him.<---Do tell...what in this verse leads to everlasting life?
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:<--Do tell...what in this verse equals life?
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life<--Do tell....what in this verse leads to not perishing and everlasting life?
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.<--Do tell...what in this verse leads to life, no condemnation and passed from death unto life?
I can go all day posting such truths.....there is not one verse which states that WORKS will save anyone.....as a matter of fact quite the contrary....to ADD WORKS to FAITH in order to gain, keep or finish off salvation IS FALSE, double cursed and a gospel that NO ONE preached including PAUL.........what is the common denominator found in the above verses and ALL like them.....it is BELIEVE or FAITH.........
THE just shall live by FAITH <-----it does not say WORKS.......ONE cannot produce ONE work or ONE microgram of FRUIT if they are NOT SAVED ALREADY.......IT IS FAITH and FAITH ALONE that SAVES A MAN..........any work, fruit, produce, by product that a man may produce is the result of the FAITH and SALVATION by FAITH that one already possesses......
IT pleased GOD by the FOOLISHNESS of PREACHING to SAVE them that BELIEVE....
TO ALL who attempt to EARN, FACILLITATE, EMBELLISH and or FINISH off salvation by WORKS....it is FOOLISH in their minds that ONE MUST SIMPLY BELIEVE to be saved......
BE not removed from the simplicity that is found in CHRIST!<---it is a simple thing to BE SAVED by FAITH!