Your "initial" salvation nonsense culminates in "type 2 works salvation" which is not Biblical. So believing is a work? Faith is a work? Everything is a work according to your erroneous theology. You might as well not even call faith faith and works works. You basically wrap both faith and works up in a package and simply stamp "faith" on the package making no distinction between faith and works. Common error by works-salvationists. I see the forest from the trees just fine. It's you who needs new bifocals.
No. I just was watching a video where I had to shut it off and take a break from it because the one guy was saying that Romans 4:12 that says, “
walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham,” is referring to doing something like good works. I disagreed strongly with the one guy in the video saying this. Abraham believing God and it being accounted to him as righteousness was the event when God told Abraham about his descendants being numbered like that of the stars of Heaven.
“And, behold, the word of the LORD
came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir. And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy seed be. And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.” (Genesis 15:4-6).
Meaning, Abraham did not do a good work when he believed God telling him that his descendants were going to be numbered like the stars of the Heaven (Whereby righteousness was imputed to him by this belief).
They think that the walking in the steps of their father Abraham is doing something like a work because walking implies doing something. But the event points to Abraham believing and not doing anything. So the walking by the steps of our father Abraham is a metaphor for merely following his example of believing or trusting God.
So I do believe we need to have faith alone but this only exists in our Initial Salvation. For when Sanctification comes (Which is also a part of our faith in believing the Bible), then it is both faith and the work of faith. But when we first come to the Lord Jesus for salvation, it was not of works or in anything major that we did. God saved us by His mercy and grace and by our believing the gospel message in 1 Corinthians 15:1-4. So I do not agree with those believers who hold to the view that faith can only exist unless it has works. I don't believe that. I believe faith is a two sided coin. I believe faith starts off as a belief alone (in our Initial Salvation), but then faith continues with it being manifested to doing the work of faith and or in being faithful to God.
In other words, I believe in Temporal Faith Alone Salvationism, and not Perpetual Belief Alone Salvationism. For not even you believe in Perpetual Belief Alone Salvationism because you said that a genuine saving faith will always have good works. The only way works do not play a part in the salvation equation is if a believer can live out his faith his whole life and be saved by a belief alone in Jesus (with no fruit whatsoever).