Scott,

You keep trying to convince people that your Roman Catholic system of salvation is not "based on works" by reiterating that the works "precede from grace". But you betray your true intent whenever you make statements like:
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Jesus provided me with the means of
reconciliation when I stumble.

Even though I am not worthy of His grace, He has freely given it to me

even when I fall, He is there to help me back up
because throughout this thread you have also insisted that the [color:blue]efficacy of the gift or help is conditional upon your response to it!

The self-righteousness of your synergistic devaluation of the eternally efficacious grace of God lies in your implication that "based on works" means simply "begins with a human act of my own", which you cleverly refute by having God make an initial offer of a powerless grace. But the salvation of the biblical, God-decreed, eternal, powerfully efficacious Gospel of Jesus Christ, [color:red]which alone saves sinners from the just wrath of God:
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Begins in the love and decree and wisdom and power of God alone, for every one of the elect

Is unfailingly, efficaciously administered by God alone, to every one of the elect

Is not contingent upon, either aided or thwarted, the action, will, heart, motive, intention, disposition, habit, virtue or vice, obedience or sin--that is, [color:black]WORKS--of any created being, including each of the elect, but is unfailingly, efficaciously contingent upon the pleasure of God alone

Is unfailingly, efficaciously completed by God alone in the life of every one of the elect

Continues through eternity to the praise of God alone, from every one of the elect


This is what the Scripture means when it says:
[color:blue]Not by works, so that no one can boast.

But since by your own repeated testimony, [color:purple]your salvation is efficaciously contingent on your own cooperation with (so-called) grace, you simply cannot make the claims above, and so your system is truly seen to be
[color:red]BASED ON WORKS,
and is therefore [color:blue]really no gospel at all.

In Christ,
Paul S