Many of the men standing in the Protestant Pulpit adamantly teach that baptism for the remission of sin is a work, and therefore cannot be a requirement for salvation; the basis for this teaching is Ephesians 2:8-9. Yet the same men teach from the Book of James (the author of which generally is believed to be the infamous James of Jerusalem) and endorse the assertions of James regarding the necessity of works for justification, James 2:17-26.