The issue of how "work" is to be defined came up in a recent thread. What I want to do here is link to a couple of other articles I've written on related themes.
We don't have to know why justification is received through faith alone in order to know that it's received in that manner. But scripture gives us some explanations, and we can think of possible reasons apart from what the Bible explains. There has to be a human response to God in order to have a relationship between the person and God, and faith effectively minimizes the human role while maximizing the Divine role. See here for some quotes of Biblical and extra-Biblical sources addressing this subject.
What about Romans 10:9-10, though? Does it contradict justification through faith alone by involving an outward act that follows faith? Here's an article I wrote on the subject a few years ago for the Real Clear Theology blog.
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