"Salvation by faith alone" ("saved" being un-Biblicallly defined as "definitely going to heaven") is often argued, based Romans 3:19 - Romans 5:1; what about Romans 14:23 which teaches that sin has the power to compromise justification (even if temporarily)?
Romans 14
23But the one who doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and whatever is not from faith is sin.
Condemnation is the opposite of justification.
If this loss of justification had no bearing on salvation (justification precedes salvation in Romans 10), then it would be inconsequential, but 1) sin is never inconsequential, and 2) why even mention it? Doesn't this loss of justification correspond, instead, to Romans 8:12-13 which teach that only those who "by the Spirit mortify the deeds of the flesh" will live and not die (as Adam died for sinning)?
What's interesting is that, here, we see the idea of "justification by faith" seemingly extended into "actions which proceed from faith" ("works of Law" proceed from sinful flesh Romans 8:3, but what we are discussing here are "works that proceed from God--which God works in us")--and, just as in James 2, justification and salvation hinge upon working according to faith.
Romans 14
23But the one who doubts is condemned if he eats, because his eating is not from faith; and whatever is not from faith is sin.
Condemnation is the opposite of justification.
If this loss of justification had no bearing on salvation (justification precedes salvation in Romans 10), then it would be inconsequential, but 1) sin is never inconsequential, and 2) why even mention it? Doesn't this loss of justification correspond, instead, to Romans 8:12-13 which teach that only those who "by the Spirit mortify the deeds of the flesh" will live and not die (as Adam died for sinning)?
What's interesting is that, here, we see the idea of "justification by faith" seemingly extended into "actions which proceed from faith" ("works of Law" proceed from sinful flesh Romans 8:3, but what we are discussing here are "works that proceed from God--which God works in us")--and, just as in James 2, justification and salvation hinge upon working according to faith.