Hi Soli,

You wrote:

> "To say that MY faith is what caused God to show me grace would definitely be boasting and would be a salvation by works."

Faith is not a work. Paul said that boasting is excluded on the principle of faith (Rom. 3:27).


> "In eph 2:8-10 we see that faith is a gift of God"

It does not say that faith is a gift of God; it says that we are saved by God's grace, through faith - salvation is the gift of God.

MJM