Understanding Ephesians 2.

Every time I get in any sort of debate or see a discussion about salvation/justification Protestants always seem to bring up (Ephesians 2  8-9) to say that works has nothing to do with salvation.

Ephesians 2:8
"For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not of yourselves, for it is a gift of God."
Ephesians 2:9
"And this is not of works, so that no one may glory."

Do you see? It's very clear in verse 9 that's it's not of works. But what does it mean that it's not of works?
Christ died on the cross, we didn't. We done nothing to merit that. He is talking about your first initial grace that you get through baptism.
I know what you're saying, he don't mention baptism there?! But you have to bring in the parallels. Colossians 2 and Ephesians 2 are parallel text.
Anti Catholic and Protestant Apologist James White even agrees that they are. He mentioned it on the dividing line in 2015.
Colossians 2:12 and Ephesians 2:8-9 talk about the same thing, you're first initial grace you get, and Colossians 2:12 tells us that it is baptism.

Colossians 2:12
"You have been buried with him in (baptism.) In him also, you have risen again (through faith,) by the work of God, who raised him up from the dead."

Ephesians 2:8
"For by grace, you have been saved (through faith.) And this is not of yourselves, for it is a gift of God."

Galatians 3:26
"For you are all sons of God, (through the faith) which is in Christ Jesus."
Galatians 3:27
"For as many of you as have been (baptized in Christ) have become clothed with Christ."

As you can see, another parallel is Galatians 3:26-27 where it uses the same phase, through the faith, or through faith, and tells us its by our baptism.
Through the faith means believing in Jesus Christ and being baptised. That's why in ancient times the baptised was called the faithful, and was called the sacrament of faith, and that's why all the church fathers believed in baptismal regeneration. All the Fathers of the church that commented on (John 3:5) said Jesus was referring to baptism. To deny baptismal regeneration is not only going by the clear teaching of Scripture, but to go up against all the fathers on it. Could all the fathers be wrong? I don't think so

Commenting on Jay dyers, why I'm not a Roman Catholic video.

Slight rebuttal on Jay dyers reasons for, why he is not Catholic video!

I was watching Jay dyers video on, why he is not Roman Catholic?
It was quite interesting. Not going to go through all of it, but just comment on a few things.

He said that the Catholic argument to the protestants is that you need the pope to  interpretate the bible for you. He said its a circular argument, as you are just moving the goal post. How does the laity interpretate the pope, papal Bulls, etc?
It seems like a good argument on the surface but further in the video, he can understand papal Bulls very easily. Apparently, the church contradicts itself in Vatican 2 and mortalium animos. How does he know it does? Is he infallible? Do we take everything in a strict sense? Let's take Feeneyism for example. Fr Feeney took the strict sence on no salvation outside the church, and the Pope was able to correct him, and now there is no Feeneyism. The bible can't do that, nor can the orthodox as you have Greek and Russian.
God bless.
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Understanding Ephesians 2.

Every time I get in any sort of debate or see a discussion about salvation/justification Protestants always seem to bring up (Ephesians 2  8-9) to say that works has nothing to do with salvation.

Ephesians 2:8
"For by grace, you have been saved through faith. And this is not of yourselves, for it is a gift of God."
Ephesians 2:9
"And this is not of works, so that no one may glory."

Do you see? It's very clear in verse 9 that's it's not of works. But what does it mean that it's not of works?
Christ died on the cross, we didn't. We done nothing to merit that. He is talking about your first initial grace that you get through baptism.
I know what you're saying, he don't mention baptism there?! But you have to bring in the parallels. Colossians 2 and Ephesians 2 are parallel text.
Anti Catholic and Protestant Apologist James White even agrees that they are. He mentioned it on the dividing line in 2015.
Colossians 2:12 and Ephesians 2:8-9 talk about the same thing, you're first initial grace you get, and Colossians 2:12 tells us that it is baptism.

Colossians 2:12
"You have been buried with him in (baptism.) In him also, you have risen again (through faith,) by the work of God, who raised him up from the dead."

Ephesians 2:8
"For by grace, you have been saved (through faith.) And this is not of yourselves, for it is a gift of God."

Galatians 3:26
"For you are all sons of God, (through the faith) which is in Christ Jesus."
Galatians 3:27
"For as many of you as have been (baptized in Christ) have become clothed with Christ."

As you can see, another parallel is Galatians 3:26-27 where it uses the same phase, through the faith, or through faith, and tells us its by our baptism.
Through the faith means believing in Jesus Christ and being baptised. That's why in ancient times the baptised was called the faithful, and was called the sacrament of faith, and that's why all the church fathers believed in baptismal regeneration. All the Fathers of the church that commented on (John 3:5) said Jesus was referring to baptism. To deny baptismal regeneration is not only going by the clear teaching of Scripture, but to go up against all the fathers on it. Could all the fathers be wrong? I don't think so.