Everybody got it wrong for 1,500 years, then brother Luther came along and got it right. Lord, help us.
Like I didn't see THAT coming! What you continue to miss in this endless argument about justification to salvation in a Christian's life is that Luther, NOR the other Reformers, invented the doctrine of justification by faith apart from works - it was something believed from the very start of Christianity and amply attested to by the early church "fathers". Why don't you look to WHY the Roman Catholic religion changed their doctrine to stating a person was saved by faith AND works? It didn't always hold to that. Doesn't it concern you that they DID change? We have sacred Scripture to inform our tenets of the Christian faith and it is to that which we can always return when disagreement is found. That IS something that God intended for His holy word.