And why do you treat faith as "doing something good?" Faith is not a work. Romans ch. 4 makes that very clear.

faith is a work and so is love they are something you do.

1 thess.1:3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;


Gal.5:6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

2 Thess.1:11 Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:


you see how the Word of God defines faith for us , by dictionary definition a work is something you do.
man wants desperatly to have a part in his salvation but Jesus did it all .by the righteousness of one .