Adding scripture from a completely different subect, and completely different book if the Bible, to another book/subject, is like adding 1 plus 1 to equal 2, you get a whole different and completely made up result to the equation.
But I will take from that scripture, a few verses:
3Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh,
"Formerly" there means we no longer do bad, we do good. that's exactly what it takes, get saved and act right. Precisely what Christ said in the Verse.
9not as a result of works, so that no one may boast.
No one here says any different, no one is boasting, and no one ever said salvation can be earned so I really do wish that unless some of you can show us where any of that has taken place, please stop the accusations. And I do realize that just happened to be in the scripture you posted so that doesn't really count, however others do keep saying we think those things and it's just not true.
But,
We can lose salvation if we do not act right from the start, or if we acted right once, but stopped
. It's all right there in the parable of the sower. Some acted right for awhile, and this that or the other thing happened and they fizzled out.
Here is scripture I believe you yourself quoted recently:
James 5:19-20 New International Version (NIV)
19 My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring that person back, 20 remember this: Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins.
Those people stopped acting right, and it states right there, that getting them back on track will save them from death, and that can mean nothing other than
Hell, Just as Christ said
...we do bad, we get Hell.
Now if you all want to keep repeating if they have faith, they will do good, all you are saying is they aren't saved (don't have faith) because they aren't doing good. Doing good shows we have faith, otherwise the faith is dead, as in faith without works is dead, and if faith is dead it is non existent, and we go to Hell.
If it doesn't mean that, what do you think "Faith without works is dead" does mean?