What Does the Bible Teach About Salvation?
1) Direct Answer
Salvation is the new birth. The Bible teaches that we are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, and that faith answers God’s call by repentance, water baptism in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and receiving the gift of the Holy Spirit. There is only one way to be saved, and that is through Jesus Christ and His finished work.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Our need: All have sinned (Romans 3:23). The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life (Romans 6:23). Without shedding of blood there is no remission (Hebrews 9:22).
- God’s provision: God was manifested in the flesh (1 Timothy 3:16). Christ died for our sins, was buried, and rose again (1 Corinthians 15:3–4). He purchased the church with His own blood (Acts 20:28). He who knew no sin was made sin for us (2 Corinthians 5:21).
- The call: Repent and believe the Gospel (Mark 1:15). “Whosoever believeth in him should not perish” (John 3:16). Confess and believe unto salvation (Romans 10:9–10).
- The Bible pattern: “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost” (Acts 2:38). “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved” (Mark 16:16). In Acts, believers were baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus (Acts 8:16; 10:48; 19:5).
- Identification with Christ: We are baptized into Jesus Christ, into His death; buried with Him by baptism; raised to walk in newness of life (Romans 6:3–4; Colossians 2:12).
- The new birth: “Ye must be born again” (John 3:3–7). “Born of water and of the Spirit” (John 3:5). “Not by works… but by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost” (Titus 3:5). If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His (Romans 8:9).
- Assurance and fruit: By grace are ye saved through faith, not of works (Ephesians 2:8–9). He that hears, believes, and has passed from death unto life (John 5:24). Those who receive His Spirit are led by the Spirit (Romans 8:14) and become new creatures (2 Corinthians 5:17), walking in holiness (Hebrews 12:14) and love, keeping His Word (John 14:23; 1 John 2:3–5).
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- You see, the Gospel is Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection. Salvation follows that pattern in the believer:
- Repentance is your death to sin.
- Water baptism in the Name of Jesus Christ is your burial with Him.
- Receiving the Holy Spirit is His resurrection life in you.
- It’s not earned by works, church membership, or creeds. It is God’s grace received by faith, proven by a changed life—the life of Christ expressed in you.
4) Reinforcing Statement
Now notice, the Scripture gives one Name for salvation: “There is none other name under heaven… whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Turn to Him, obey His Word, and He will fill you with His Spirit. That’s the Bible way.
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Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
The Supernatural
56-0129 §63
The next morning Almighty God by His infinite power, when the German church come down and said, "We can understand and believe your theology, and your Bible teaching is wonderful, Brother Branham." But said, "That light, that Angel, we can't understand it." And they had a breakfast with about six hundred ministers met together, and they put a big German camera there, and the Holy Ghost in that same pillar of fire came down and was took on the German camera three times that morning. And it swept Germany. The atmosph...
The Unwelcomed Christ
55-0828A §4
...d have been born again; they have eternal life. And we're going to meet again. And all the old people are going to be changed and go back young again. Amen. That's what the Bible teaches.
Jehovah-Jireh
56-1209E §66
...ll the Father shows Me first." Saint John 5:19. "I can do nothing in Myself till I see the Father doing it. And what the Father doeth that doeth the Son likewise." Now, the Bible teaches us by Christ's own words, "The things that I do shall you do, also. More than this shall you do, for I go to My Father. A little while and the world will see Me no more, yet ye shall see Me, for I will be with you, in you, to the end of the world." The Bible says in 13th chapter of Hebrews that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, t...
Questions and Answers
59-1223 §25
...w moments ago, which may rise into your thinking another question, that I've taught, and that is on... That I do not believe that there is an eternal... I don't believe the Bible teaches an eternal, burning hell. It doesn't. Because if hell is eternal and people that go there will be punished eternally, the only way they could be eternally punished, they'd have to have eternal life. And there is only one form of eternal life, and that's in God, see. So they have to come to annihilation (see); that is, their physica...
Father, the hour has come
56-1002A §23
...t do that. So, we see those things as an example, and while you committees here, while your convention's going on, brethren, what's happened to you? You're reading the same Bible; you know the Bible teaches those things. So, let's get down to business with it. Let's either be for God or be against God. When did God answer the most? When we acted like Christians or not? Why, John Wesley's move would raise up and condemn this Pentecostal generation, back in the old holiness times. Now, you know that's so. John Wesley...