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No, it says "by grace we are saved, not of works, lest any should boast" there is no Biblical distinction between works that are boastful and works that are not. that is a purely human-made imaginary term you're preaching, because you want to boast in your personal definition of non-boastful...

it is after all a question - "who knows?" and the answer to the question is God.

Sound advice if your hand or eye is really the thing preventing you from being saved. you think a man being plainly described as fully conscious and able to speak and think and feel while his body is in the grave is an allegory? an allegory of what?

he is a soul saved from water in an ark, who in time led the children of Israel to salvation through water, with The Angel of The LORD going before them and standing between them and death.

what's the next verse say?

Satans lying argument to Woman seems to me to be that she was not actually created with life, and the only way she can gain it is by sin. it's a tacit accusation against God that He has purposefully withheld goodness from her, not a simple ruse that sin has no consequence. lack of consequence...

why does Christ describe both the beggar Lazarus and the rich man as though it is a plain matter of fact that they still have consciousness while their physical bodies are in the grave? is Jesus being deceitful?

Romans 8:19-23 For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him who subjected [it] in hope; because the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of...

how can you quote that and then say this? all animals are living souls. the creation was subjected to frustration not because of its own, but for Adam's sake. a squirrel's spirit is not dust, it is spirit. the body is dust, and it will be resurrected. if it is sown a natural body, it will be...

what in the world makes you think the other living souls can't be with God? they don't even sin, but we do!

not "like" animals. indeed, animals. Ecclesiastes 3:18 I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

a figure of speech because no physical death is permanent. every creature will be resurrected

exactly, yes. it has to be understood that when scripture talks about life and death, there is more than one thing called death, and more than one thing called life. He speaks to us of spiritual things, but often in an earthly, human way, so we can understand.

He called Lazarus "dead" only when the apostles failed to understand what He meant by saying he was asleep. to God those who have life, never die. He gives them life, and no one can snatch out of His hand.

this passage is clearly not teaching salvation by works. that's not worth entertaining. but to me one of most important things is that it tells us scripture is meant to be understood as not just historical fact but also allegory. the two wives are literal women and they are also two covenants...

the Law is authored by God, and every work James encourages is in the Law.

you might have those chapters but do you not understand them? the law was not until 430 years after Abraham. the will and effort of mankind under the law cannot save, nor can the will and effort or mankind outside of the law. Salvation is the work of God and God alone. not you.

not of works, lest any man should boast.

it wouldn't be written down if we didn't need to read it :)