That's actually NOT "all I have left to say." The Bible is CRYSTAL CLEAR that God's righteousness is imputed onto us BY FAITH: 2 Corinthians 5:21, Genesis 15:6, Romans 4:3, Galatians 3:6, Romans 4:5, Romans 3:22, Romans 9:30, Philippians 3:9, Romans 10:4, Romans 4:13, Romans 3:28, Romans 5:1, Galatians 2:16, Romans 3:30
And by the way, you learn in second grade English that faith is a noun and not a verb.
Your works salvation doctrine is nonsensical and 100% heresy. I'll go ahead and explain the Ephesians passage since you didn't even bother to respond to it properly, but first:
John 6:47 King James Version (KJV)
47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that
believeth on me
hath everlasting life.
John 3:16 King James Version (KJV)
16 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.
Even a toddler can understand these verses. The Bible obviously teaches you must believe, then you will HAVE (present tense) everlasting life. So, if everlasting life can be lost...it wasn't everlasting. It was temporary. So according to you - everlasting life is not everlasting and God is a liar. OK!
Belief/faith means TRUST. You must trust in Jesus Christ alone for salvation, or you're trusting in works - and you'll be working yourself straight to hell:
Ephesians 1:12-13 King James Version (KJV)
12 That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first
trusted in Christ.
13 In whom ye also
trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye
believed, ye were
sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
You are commanded to BELIEVE the gospel, to trust Jesus Christ for salvation - NOT your own works.
Matthew 7:21-23 King James Version (KJV)
21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and
in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you:
depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
Your works will leave you standing condemned before God. Yes, I know verse 21 refers to the will of the father. What is the will of the father?
John 6:40 King James Version (KJV)
40 And
this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and
believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Once again, the Bible is clear. If you were saved you'd see it.
Look, watch what I do right here - destroy your nonsensical heresy:
Luke 13:3 King James Version (KJV)
3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Wow, one verse that doesn't perfectly outline the salvation plan - that must mean all my proof texts aren't complete either!
Yeah...
I think it's worth mentioning that you probably don't even know what "repent" means. Did you know that God "repents" more times in the Bible than man? Not one single time in my King James Bible have I ever read the phrase "repent of your sins." So tell me, does God sin?
I'm not "cherry picking" anything. Verse after verse after verse in the Bible says salvation is by FAITH:
John 3:15, "That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life."
John 3:16, "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."
John 3.18, "He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God."
John 3:36, "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."
Acts 16:31, "And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house."
You TOTALLY IGNORE each and every one of these to promote lies that'll send yourself and everyone who buys it straight to hell. Wake up.
Here is God "repenting:"
Genesis 6:6, "And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart."
I Samuel 15:35, "And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel."
Exodus 32:14 "And the LORD repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people."
Jonah 3:9, 10, "Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not."
Amos 7:3, "The Lord repented for this: It shall not be, saith the Lord."
Amos 7:6, "The Lord repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord God."
If you actually understood the word "repent" you'd know it means CHANGE OF MIND. Change from what? In the verse you cited, it means repent and change your mind from a state of unbelief towards a state of BELIEF.
Acts 17:30, "And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent."
Notice God commandeth all men every where to repent. Repent from what? Repent from the thing that keeps them lost, and that's unbelief. What corrects this? Look at Acts 17:34, "Howbeit certain men clave unto him, and believed: among the which was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Dammaris, and others with them." Notice it said, "certain men believed."
So, when he said, "repent," he was saying "repent from unbelief and believe," because just as in Acts 2:38 and 41 a command was given to repent, and the believing was the obedience to that command. They changed their mind about belief. They decided to believe instead of not believe.
I'm not even going to address your arrogance in the second paragraph. All I have to say is you're totally confused about what passages are for SALVATION and what passages are COMMANDS. Of course we ought to get baptized, I never said you shouldn't. Every Bible believing Christian should be baptized. Every Bible believing Christian should repent from sin and obey God and live righteously, I'm not denying that. I want my church to preach strongly against sin and hold its members accountable.
What you're missing is - turning from sin does NOT get you saved. What gets you saved and secure for all eternity (John 10:27-30; I Peter 1:5; Ephesians 4:30; Romans 8:35-39; John 5:24, Ephesians 1:12-13) is FAITH.
You then do the WORK to store up treasures in Heaven, to glorify God the father, to remain in good standing at your church, to not receive chastisement from God and to not grieve the Holy Spirit.
The Bible is clear that slavation is by faith alone and anyone trusting their own works will go to Hell. At judgement day you'll be pleading with Christ to let you in based on all your "good works," so-called, and he'll have nothing to say but:
I never knew you:
depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
It's not too late to repent of this heretical garbage and believe and TRUST only in JESUS for your salvation.