Sola fide, is one of the five sola principles and those two words are not in a Bible verse. Of course neither are any of the other 4 solas specifically listed in the Bible. They are summary statements to teach scriptural principles. The principle of sola fide teaches that salvation is entirely apart from our own works or effort as taught by the Reformers. Two key scriptures that teach sola fide are Romans 4:5-6 and Galatians 2:16. As a Mormon acquaintance told me once: “...to you Lutherans it is just “The work of Jesus plus nothing.” We are not against good works just that they are not part of our salvation. As Martin Luther said: Gott braucht deine guten Werke nicht, Aber Ihr Nachbar tut es
roughly: God Doesn't Need Your Good Works, But Your Neighbor Does
I’m not sure what the gift of prophecy has to do with my 4 questions. I am tired of SDA fallacious strawman arguments (and they know what logical fallacies are...but they continue to use them which is sad) Please promise you won’t use the gift of prophecy as a straw man drawing us away from the core 4 questions I asked. Fair enough?
But I’ll answer: Yes there can be valid prophecies after Christ’s death/burial/resurrection. Agabus was a prophet in the book of Acts predicting a famine which happened. The few post NT prophets I recall off the top of my head are: John Knox (the Scottish Presbyterian-Reformed-5-sola pastor gave several prophesies that came true
https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/flor.17.016
In the late 1400s Savonarola warned of "the Sword of the Lord over the earth coming quickly and soon" “seeing” awful tribulations to Rome. A bit later he began to prophesy that a New Cyrus was coming over the mountains to begin the renewal of the Church. A few of his prophecies came true but not all. There are others. They all should be tested by the Bible in the original autographs (Gk and Heb). I taught early church history pre 1000 AD so am not so familiar with modern “prophets”
On the need for and validity of the gift of prophecy OK
But per the Bible all prophecies (including Ellen’s) must be tested by the original autographs of the Bible/word of God in Hebrew and Greek. SDA states they are “sola scriptura”
From the late 1950s to 60s 30+ Adventist Hebrew scholars investigated key questions on how to understand and exegete the sanctuary doctrine out of Daniel 8:14 (from the Hebrew) Ray Cottrell (Adventist hebrew scholar)asked internal Hebrew scholars about the Hebrew translation of Dan 8:14 all stated that there is no linguistic or contextual basis for applying Daniel 8:14 to the antitypical Day of Atonement and the Investigative Judgment. There was not one Adventist college Bible teacher (knowing the Hebrew text) who came out and said there is a basis in exegesis – that is in the language or the context to apply Dan 8:14 to DOA or IJ. They all stated the KJV Dan 8:14 was an unfortunate mistranslation. SDA states sola scriptura but when their own Hebrew scholars show otherwise from the original Daniel 8 autographs these faithful scholars who had labored for 5 years are dismissed. Lets assume Ellen had the gift of prophecy. OK do her visions, prophecies and writings need to be tested by the original Greek and Hebrew Bible texts? Yes
SDA “Her writings speak with prophetic authority and provide comfort, guidance, instruction, and correction to the church” OK if at least some of her writings clearly are not supported in any way from the Hebrew(e.g. we now know from the Hebrew text of Dan 8 do not support the IJ and DOA ideas from Ellen’s writings and visions) Why doesn’t the GC humbly admit as much and say “we are human, a mistake was made...Dan 8:14 in the Hebrew does not teach what we thought it did."
My parents always told me: Honesty is always the best policy.
Now back to the 4 questions:
1. Would you risk your salvation if you stopped keeping the Sabbath as taught in Fundamental Belief 20?
2. What specifically is the “new birth”?
3. What is the Gospel?
4. How are you saved?