Eph 2:8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no-one can boast.
Ro 10:9 That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
I don't know about Luther or the Catholics, but the word of God is pretty clear to me. These 2 verses say all. It doesn't take a theologian to figure them out. James was written to those already saved. They have salvation and he was telling them how to live it.
If it was clear, it would mean the same thing to all Christians and Christian sects, but it doesn't, so it's not clear.
Well, there they are. Those verses say that you're saved by grace, not by works. The verses are right there in black and white to be read by all, in any version you like. I don't care how they're written in Latin. They were originally in Greek and the best translations are directly from that.
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” ― George Orwell
It's not over when you lose. It's over when you quit.
