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A familiar passage that touches on ontology is in Exodus when God tells Moses "I'm the existing one" or "I'm the one who exists" (there are various translations).

The point is only God truly can be said to exist. When we have faith and participate in God's goodness you could say that we are truly more human, more "existing" than if we ignored God and continued deliberately in sin.

>Sin is part of my being, I get that, am I supposed to get anything else?
That's a more involved question. Evangelicals and Protestants tend to have a different anthropology (view of man) than what's discussed by church fathers. Your sin is not substituted by Christ's sinlessness to appease a wrathful God-the-Father; you are judged for your actions as the scriptures say, though, to be precise, ever good action done for Christ is actually a work wrought via Christ, who is the source of good. Maybe you can see how this view transcends the work/faith dialectic?

To get to the original question of sola fide: sin, because it relates to being (i.e. God), is linked with a different concept of salvation. If sin were merely something erased by a sinner's prayer, then sin would have no bearing on the existence of man, and yet all Christians can read Genesis and see that it was the deliberate move away from God's will which had grave existential consequences (i.e. death entered the world, not just in man, but in the entire cosmos).

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Orthodox Worship by Williams and Anstall