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The Protestant-defined doctrine of sola fide (faith alone) contradicts several passages of the Holy Bible.
John 3
>Jesus answered: Amen, amen I say to thee, unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
Notice how Jesus says being born again of water and the Holy Ghost (baptism) is needed for salvation.
Galatians 5
>Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, immodesty, luxury, Idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects, Envies, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like. Of the which I foretell you, as I have foretold to you, that they who do such things shall not obtain the kingdom of God.
Notice how there are certain actions a person can commit which can separate themselves from God.
James 2
>So faith also, if it have not works, is dead in itself. But some man will say: Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without works; and I will shew thee, by works, my faith. Thou believest that there is one God. Thou dost well: the devils also believe and tremble. But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead? Was not Abraham our father justified by works, offering up Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest thou, that faith did co-operate with his works; and by works faith was made perfect?
Notice how James says that faith without works is dead.
It is clear from these and several other verses of the Holy Bible that the affirmation of the life and divinity of Christ does not suffice if the other requirements for living the faith are rejected. This refutes the doctrine of sola fide (faith alone) as defined by Protestantism. With this, Protestantism collapses.
