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Let's go through your other point - sola fide - hmmm.. so you discount

1 Corinthians 13:2 And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing

hmmm... or James 2:24 -- which incidentally is the only time sola fide is used See how a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.

Let's look at James in detail

14 What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister has nothing to wear and has no food for the day, 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, keep warm, and eat well,” but you do not give them the necessities of the body, what good is it? 17 So also faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

18 Indeed someone may say, “You have faith and I have works.” Demonstrate your faith to me without works, and I will demonstrate my faith to you from my works. 19 You believe that God is one. You do well. Even the demons believe that and tremble. 20 Do you want proof, you ignoramus, that faith without works is useless? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered his son Isaac upon the altar? 22 You see that faith was active along with his works, and faith was completed by the works. 23 Thus the scripture was fulfilled that says, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness,” and he was called “the friend of God.” 24 See how a person is justified by works and not by faith alone. 25 And in the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she welcomed the messengers and sent them out by a different route? 26 For just as a body without a spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.

So the "sola" bit is biblically false,

have you read the bible Appy?

Cronos, those verses are pointing out that works are the fruit of faith. If you have true faith then you will do good works because you love God and want to please Him. However it remains true that no man has or will ever be good enough ALL the time to cause God to call him righteous all the time, because we all sin. So the ONLY way God can justify our entry into heaven is through GRACE.