Where They've Gone Wrong

I wanted to take just a minute to contrast the Christian faith and Mormonism. I had a conversation with my friend James the other day and we had a great conversation about this. It came to our attention that many of our Christian brothers and sisters know little about the differences between Christianity and Mormonism. Hopefully this will provide a small glimpse of the differences.
While there are many differences in these two belief systems (views of God and Jesus, etc.) I will just focus on the largest part I have seen and that is the particular view of Salvation.
The Mormons basically believe that Salvation comes by faith through baptism and works. "For we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all that we can do." Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 25:23. This is a huge difference from what the Christian Church holds to be true. "For it is by grace you have been saved, through-faith and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God-not by works, so that no one can boast." Ephesians 2:8-9.
So why do the Mormons seek to tack our works onto Salvation. The simple answers is, they can't fathom that "Grace" can be that simple. The Mormon Church often accuses Christians of teaching "cheap grace." But Paul refutes the teaching of "cheap grace" in Romans 6. Should we go on sinning so we can experience more grace? Paul's answer is "No! We died to sin." So not only is Salvation not by works it is also NOT an excuse to live a sinful life. Our grace is certainly not cheap. It cost our Savior his life.
You see the Mormons have greatly corrupted grace by tacking on our personal works. Paul sets the record straight in Galatians 2:21, "I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!" There are no amount of good works we can do to gain Salvation. And praise be to God for that! If it were by works, even some minor amount of works, we would never, in this life or the next, be able to taste and see how truly glorious our Savior really is.