So baptism saves except that if you don’t add works, it doesn’t.
And communion saves except that if you don’t add works, it doesn’t.
And confirmation saves, except that if you don’t add works it doesn’t.
And faith saves, except that if you don’t add works, it doesn’t.
And atheists can be saved, even if they don’t believe, but if they have works, they are.
Anid God’s grace saves, except if you don’t have works, you lose it.
The only common denominator is works.
And Catholics tell us with a straight face that Catholicism is not a works based religion and they don’t believe in salvation by works and they expect us to believe them????
Works of self-denial, done in imitation of Christ, show that some faith has awaken in the person. Faith cannot be separated form good works. Our faith is what we do.