Jesus last words on the subject at hand: Revelation 22:12 "and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his WORK shall be." 14 "Blessed are they that do his COMMANDMENTS, that they have the right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city (eternal life)".
"straight is the gate, and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life and FEW there be that find it"
This is why you obsessively reject Paul's witness. You believe in a works based religion.
Paul taught what Christ and Peter taught. Salvation through faith and not by works.
Amen
He has yet to answer Jesus' plan of salvation where He took the first half of John 3 to explain it simply to a devout Jew who trusted his obedience to the works of the law to be saved.
Summery:
"For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 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.... 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."
