[Petrosius]

Still avoiding the fact that Paul said that God will repay everyone according to his works and that he warns that those who remain in sin will not enter the kingdom of God. You can deflect with other issues all you want but this is the central issue, and sola fide is contrary to Scripture.

[metmom]

Still avoiding the fact that Paul said that God will repay everyone according to his works and that he warns that those who remain in sin will not enter the kingdom of God.

Repaying people with reward of lack of it.

Not salvation of the lack of it.

If salvation can be gained by what you do or lost by what you do (sin) or don't do (works) then it's NOT a free gift of God's grace.

You're working for your salvation and that WILL fail.

Galatians 3:10-14 For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, “Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them.” Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.” But the law is not of faith, rather “The one who does them shall live by them.” Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree”— so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.

Interjecting works or lack thereof into the equation brings condemnation.

Hey, but you've been shown the verses and if choose to still depend on your own efforts to either do the good or not do the sin, well, good luck with that.

Because even if you were capable of leading an absolutely pure, sin free life for the rest of your life, you would still not make it into heaven because of the magnitude of the sin debt you already have stacked against you.

Unless you accept Jesus offer of eternal life and have that sin debt canceled.

[Elsie]

... sola fide is contrary to Scripture.

Justificatio sola fide (or simply sola fide), meaning justification by faith alone, is a soteriological doctrine in Christian theology commonly held to distinguish the Lutheran and Reformed traditions of Protestantism, among others, from the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Assyrian and Anabaptist churches.

The doctrine asserts that it is on the basis of faith alone that believers are made right of sin (such as their transgressions of divine law); and not on the basis of what Paul the Apostle calls "works of the law", which sola fide proponents interpret as including not only moral, legal or ceremonial requirements but any good works or "works of charity."

[Elsie]

Fifteen times the word FAITH was used in Galatians 3.

I guess that chapter isn’t considered to be Scripture by Rome - or you.