1) you guys don't believe for example "faith alone" when questioned especially since no man can have salvation without charity! 1 cor 13:2
I 100% do believe Sola Fide is true.
and so did the early church..
The Catholic Church lost its way and refused to be corrected.
“Whosoever will candidly consider each particular, will recognize the greatness of the gifts which were given by him. For from him have sprung the priests and all the Levites who minister at the altar of God. From him also [was descended] our Lord Jesus Christ according to the flesh. From him [arose] kings, princes, and rulers of the race of Judah. Nor are his other tribes in small glory, inasmuch as God had promised, ‘Thy seed shall be as the stars of heaven.’ All these, therefore, were highly honored, and made great, not for their own sake, or for their own works, or for the righteousness which they wrought, but through the operation of His will.
And we, too, being called by His will in Christ Jesus,
are not justified by ourselves, nor by our own wisdom, or understanding, or godliness,
or works we have wrought in holiness of heart, but by that faith through which, from the beginning, Almighty God has justified all men; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.”
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Clement, First Epistle to the Corinthians, Ch. 32
(AD 99)
“Every mystery which is enacted by
our Lord Jesus Christ asks only for faith. The mystery was enacted at that time for our sake and aimed at our resurrection and liberation, should we have faith in the mystery of Christ and in Christ.”
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Marius Victorinus, Epistle to the Galatians,1.3.7
(AD 356)
“Let him who boasts boast in the Lord, that Christ has been made by God for us in righteousness, wisdom, justification, redemption. This is perfect and pure boasting in God, when one is not proud on account of his own righteousness but knows that he is indeed unworthy of the true righteousness and is (or has been)
justified solely by faith in Christ.”
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Basil of Caesarea, Homilia XX, Homilia De Humilitate
(AD 379)
“God has decreed that a person who believes in Christ
can be saved without works. By
faith alone he receives the forgiveness of sins.”
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Ambrosiaster, on 1 Cor 1:14b
(AD 384)
“
They are justified freely because
they have not done anything nor given anything in return, but
by faith alone they have been made holy by the gift of God.”
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Ambrosiaster, on Rom. 3:24
(AD 384)
“The patriarch Abraham himself before receiving circumcision had been
declared righteous on the score of faith alone; before circumcision, the text says, Abraham believed God, and credit for it brought him to righteousness.”
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Chrysostom, Homilies on Genesis, 27.7
(AD 407)
“See he calls the faith also a law delighting to keep to the names, and so allay the seeming novelty. But what is the ‘law of faith’? It is, being saved by grace. Here he shows God’s power, in that He has not only saved, but has even justified, and led them to boasting, and this too
without needing works, but looking for
faith only.”
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Chrysostom, Homilies on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans, Homily 7, vs. 27
(AD 407)
“
For a person who had no works, to be justified by faith, was nothing unlikely. But for a person richly adorned with good deeds, not to be made just from hence, but from faith, this is the thing to cause wonder, and to set the power of faith in a strong light.”
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Chrysostom, Homilies on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans, Homily 8, Rom. 4:1-2
(AD 407)
“God justifies by
faith alone” (“Deus ex
sola fide justificat”)
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Jerome, Epestolam Ad Romanos, Caput X, v.3
(AD 420)
“What Paul meant was that no one obtains the gift of justification on the basis of merits derived from works performed beforehand, but the gift of justification comes
only from faith.”
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Bede, Cited from the Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ed. Gerald Bray), NT, vol. 11, p. 31.
(AD 735)
"But in addition that you might believe also this, that sins are given to you individually, this is the testimony, which the Holy Spirit bestows in your heart, saying, Your sins are forgiven by you. For the Apostle thinks thus,
that man is gratuitously justified through faith."
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Bernard of Clairvaux, First Sermon on the Annunciation
(AD 1153)
“Therefore the hope of justification is not found in them [the moral and ceremonial requirements of the law],
but in faith alone.”
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Thomas Aquinas, Expositio in Ep. I ad Timotheum cap. 1, lect. 3
(AD 1274)
