Thank you, I am glad you were not offended
Like you, if peopl use grace as an excuse to sin, they are wrong, and Paul, James and Jude all spoke on this issue, and the words they used (especially Jude) were not kind words, they let them have it,
what has happened though by many, even some in here, is they have made the same mistake the Jews made,
the Jews made a whole whole book of laws in order to help them prevent breaking the sins of Gods law, so they would. OT experience Babylon again,
in the NT church especially highlighted by Rome, they did the same, they made works as a required service to god to keep salvation in order to not be tempted to use grace as a means to excuse sin.
in other words, they went the exact opposite to what they are afraid of, and in turn made a gospel just as wrong and evil as the gospel they appose,
i do not blame people and it is hard, I blame the churches who blind their members with this legalistic fight against grace,
in reality, if you look at the Roman Catholic Church and the Jewish assembly in christs day, and do not look at the different laws and sacraments which separate the two, they are almost identical
1, based on history and tradition
2. Traditional ceremonies which are required, the Jews called them works of the law, th catholic call them sacraments
3. a high priest (one who mediates between god and man)
4. A priesthood
i can name many more similarities.
much of the churches who left in the reformation left with a lot of the same tendencies, only less stringent, but maintained the same works based gospel.
The argument is still between the mother church (Rome and her children) and the one true church of God and he children. Sadly we see that war which has been raging since the beginning of time still waging today, even in CC.