There is big difference between believing in the Trinity, which is Biblical and believing in works salvation, which is UN-Biblical, yet that doesn't seem to concern you?
It doesn't seem to concern Roman Catholics and Mormons either.
It's God's Word that makes my case that from beginning "have been saved through faith" (Ephesians 2:8) to end "receiving the end of your faith--the salvation of your souls" (1 Peter 1:9) salvation is through faith and is not by works. (Romans 4:5-6; Titus 3:5; 2 Timothy 1:9 etc..).
Amen! Now if you only truly believed that.
Here it comes. I don't have time to respond to these multitude of scriptures in your post, but will address the main points.
Yes, shown but not established.
The Sanctification process is not about ultimately being saved by works.
Notice that Paul said to "work out" your salvation and
not "work for" your salvation. When we "work out" at the gym, we exercise to develop our body that we already have and not to get a body. Farmers "work" the land, not in order to get the land, but to develop the land they already have. The Greek verb rendered "work out" means to continually work to bring something to completion. We do this by actively pursuing the process of ongoing sanctification, which is the result of being set apart for God's work and involves the process of being conformed to the image of Christ. Ongoing sanctification has no bearing on justification. That is, even if we don't live a sinless, perfect life 100% of the time (which we won't) we are still justified by faith in Christ (Romans 5:1). Where justification is a legal declaration that is instantaneous, ongoing sanctification is a process.
Romans 8:8 - So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9
But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, IF indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His. 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you. *Contrast between believers and unbelievers.
In regards to 1 Timothy 4:16, we are not passive in persevering in our faith, but it's not in our own power that we persevere. God alone saves, but "in a sense" we save ourselves and others through perseverance in sound doctrine, as we continue to believe the gospel and are used as God's instruments to bring about the salvation of others through preaching the gospel to them as well. *If you fell into a well with no way out and someone threw down and rope and pulled you out, "in a sense" you can say that you "saved yourself" by choosing to grab and hold onto the rope until that person pulled you out, but ultimately, the person who pulled you out of the well saved you and ultimately, it is Jesus Christ who saves us.
In Hebrews 12:14, the NASB reads - Pursue peace with all men, and the
sanctification without which no one will see the Lord. Apparently, you misinterpret this verse to mean that it's your personal holiness that will cause you to see the Lord - "Holier than thou." Now to be "sanctified" is to be "set apart,
made holy."
Those who have been justified by faith are also
sanctified/set apart/made holy before God
positionally in Christ. 1 Corinthians 6:11 - Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were
sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. Yet we also have progressive or ongoing sanctification in which the reality of that holiness becomes more and more evident in our actions, words, thoughts, attitudes, and motives. 1 Thessalonians 4:3-4, - For this is the will of God, your
sanctification: that you should abstain (present tense) from sexual immorality; that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor.
So becoming washed, sanctified and justified in Christ is a one time event, yet abstaining from sexual immorality is not a one time event. The
believer possess a positional, judicial standing of righteousness in Christ and, second, a
remaining need for practical, progressive holiness, in regards to our ongoing sanctification.
In Hebrews 12:15, we read - See to it that no one
comes short of the grace of God.. (NASB) The NIV reads -
falls short of the grace of God. The ESV reads -
..fails to obtain the grace of God. *No loss of salvation here. Only a failure to obtain it.
You could keep going and twist the scriptures to teach works salvation and loss of salvation, but none of your arguments are anything new or enlightening. I heard it all before, prior to my conversion while still attending the Roman Catholic church several years ago. Same scriptures, same arguments.
I already have. Works-salvation/eternal IN-secure proponents fail to properly harmonize scripture with scripture (Romans 4:2-3; James 2:24) in order to reach the proper conclusion on doctrine.
The word "justified" does have multiple meanings, as I already shared with you in post #125.
*James is talking about works. James is discussing the
evidence of faith (
says-claims to have faith but has no works/I will show you my faith by my works - James 2:14-18) and
not the initial act of being accounted as righteous with God (Romans 4:2-3). You just can't seem to get that through your head. Believers are justified/accounted as righteous by faith, not works (Romans 5:2-6) and justified/shown to be righteous by works. (James 2:21,24) Simple!