[Bellflower]

Paul was so completely about salvation by grace, through faith alone. For Paul there could not be any works at all involved in salvation. He said that if salvation were of works, it could not be of grace, and if it were of grace it couldn’t be of works. His message is not what Catholics believe. I can’t imagine how a Catholic could do justice to portraying Paul truthfully. The salvation/grace message is at the very heart of Paul.

Romans 11:6
And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.

[af_vet_1981]

For Paul there could not be any works at all involved in salvation.

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. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world; Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

Philippians, Catholic chapter two, Protestant verses twelve to sixteen,
as authorized, but not authored, by King James