"So God has a finite number of good works or requirements you must complete?"You don't see a contradiction in Rom 4:3I'm sure He does that is different for each of us, but there is no way for any of us to know how many it is.
“Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” 4 Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. 5 And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, 6 just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
When presented as a bumper sticker it can provoke difficulties, but I don't base any of my theology on a single passage. There is a reason that St. John refers to the Logos, the comprehensive true belief system embodied in Jesus. A good source for a more comprehensive discussion of the subject, since you have in the past professed to be Lutheran, is the "JOINT DECLARATION ON THE DOCTRINE OF JUSTIFICATION" by the Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church.