And because you addressed a single verse, my turn.
“James 2:14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,” and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? 17 So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.”
Of course I’m not arguing that. My position has ALWAYS been—and the position of nearly all Protestant churches—that faith and good works HAVE to go together. If there are no good works, faith is non-existent.
IOW, goods works are a product of salvation, not part of the means of salvation.
You two go at it.
I’ll just sit at ringside and heckle from behind the ropes.