Cheers for your thoughts, some good reflections. How does your version of a Christian sit with James 2:19? Would demons count as Christians based on your description?
In all the Bible verses, there were actions not just belief- even the thief on the cross, who could only make one action(to speak) made it.
I don’t think we earn our way to heaven but our faith, as suggested by the theologians mentioned, should have an outworking such as following Jesus teaching.
Also the use of ‘daily life’ isn’t talking about a time frame, it’s referring more to use in real, physical life as opposed to an ethereal, mental or spiritual only philosophy.