Some people cannot just accept that God is the author and finisher of our salvation. Period. To their thinking it HAS to be THEM in it..at least at some part...else God is unfair etc. Missing out the ONLY thing that counts: God's righteousness. This sort of pride is devastating as it goofs out on the very most crucial matter of them all.
No one here that I have seen denies that God saves. The issue is who does God save and why does He save them?
Heb 5:9; Rom 6:16; Acts 10:35 among many many more verses show that God saves those that obey His will.
One is either in a state of obeying God (doing righteousness) or disobeying God (doing unrighteousness). As long as one remains in a state of doing unrighteousness he will be lost therefore the only way out of a state of unrighteousness is by doing righteousness, Acts 10:35.
1 Jn 3:10 "....whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God..."
Whosoever continues in not doing righteousness (continues in unrighteousness) continues to NOT be of God.
So the 'faith only' crowd remains frustrated in trying to find a way to get one to be 'of God' without that one having to do any righteousness at all. Again, for as long as one continues in unrighteousness he continues to be not of God.