Believing is not works. Neither is calling upon the name of the Lord for salvation. If I offer you a free gift, but tell you to ask me for it, would you honestly say that you worked for that gift? And if I said I have a gift for you, you wouldn't ask for it unless you believed that I would give it to you. If you think that is works, then you are retarded. "For by grace are ye saved, through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, NOT OF WORKS, lest any man should boast."
Believing is not works. Neither is calling upon the name of the Lord for salvation. If I offer you a free gift, but tell you to ask me for it, would you honestly say that you worked for that gift? And if I said I have a gift for you, you wouldn't ask for it unless you believed that I would give it to you. If you think that is works, then you are retarded. "For by grace are ye saved, through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, NOT OF WORKS, lest any man should boast."
The heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked. Who can know it?