From the last 3 pages of posts, we see people coming from all sides on many issues. However, everyone has one thing in common: salvation comes through accepting Christ as savior and Lord. You can't earn it, it's a free gift received solely by believing in him.
We can talk about it for many more pages but those simple facts remain and are set in stone. No matter what you believe or how you interpret scripture, salvation by faith in a risen Lord is common to all Christians. It's what Christianity is all about. It doesn't matter if you believe or not believe in an eternal hell, whether you agree with Paul on everything he says, or how the end times will wash out. That simple salvation by faith remains. It's given by God and will never change.
Sola fide it typically attributed to Martin Luthar, and there is significant variation regarding how it's interpreted by the various Christian sects.
You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.
You cannot over estimate the unimportance of nearly everything. John Maxwell
