What Is Required for Salvation? Faith Alone?
1) Direct answer
Salvation is God’s gift by grace through faith in Jesus Christ—not by our works. But not “faith alone” as a bare claim or mental assent. True faith receives God’s provided way and obeys: repent, be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and receive the Holy Spirit—the new birth.
2) Scriptural explanation
- Ephesians 2:8–9: “By grace are ye saved through faith… not of works.”
- Mark 16:16: “He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.”
- Acts 2:38: “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.”
- John 3:3–5: “Except a man be born again… of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.”
- Romans 10:9–10: Believe in your heart and confess with your mouth.
- Romans 8:9: “If any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.”
- James 2:17,24: “Faith without works is dead… not by faith only.”
- Ephesians 1:13: After believing, you are sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise.
3) Simple clarifying logic
- The Bible says believe—and be baptized. So a faith that refuses obedience is not the faith the Bible speaks of.
- Jesus said you must be born again of water and Spirit; so the new birth is not optional.
- We do not earn salvation by doing these things; we simply step into God’s provided way. The Blood saves; baptism in Jesus’ Name is our obedience to His command; the Holy Spirit is God’s seal that the work is real.
- A living faith produces a changed life. If the Spirit of Christ is not in us, we don’t belong to Him.
4) Short reinforcement
Come God’s way: repent, believe the gospel, be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and receive the Holy Spirit. That is Bible salvation—grace through faith that obeys and is sealed by the Spirit.
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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.
An Absolute
63-1201M §59
Romans 8:1, "Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ." We find out... I believe that's Romans 5. We find out ... and He is our justification. God raised Him up on the third day to justify our faith, that we believe it. And He raised Him up to justify our faith. What did He do then? He sent Him back, the justifier, because our faith believes it. The Holy Spirit, Christ, come into it for our justification, because we have raised from death unto life. And now we are son...
Be certain of God
59-0412A §19
..., no doubt she checked up and said, "Lord, I've done all that I know how to do." When you've done everything that you know how to do, and met every requirement that God has required, that's where faith takes ahold. That's where faith comes in. If you've met every requirement that God required you to do, then sometimes God tests your faith, to see what kind of a reaction you'll have on your action. Oh, He's good at that. It just proves whether you really believe what you think you believe. You know He does that many...
The faith that was once delivered to the saints
53-1129A §32
Salvation in Jesus Christ, and the power of healing, the power of God, there's no great mystery. It's something just right next to you. Why, my. It's just as simple as one, two, three. Just believe God. That's all there is to it. It's just that simple. You tell your little girl you're going to get her something. She just believes it. That's all. Watch children when they get to the pulpit. Watch and see if everyone of them isn't healed, because they just believe it. That's all. Watch them when they're called on the...
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever
58-0312 §6
...ler, Christ. Not divine healing. And there is no power, in myself or any other man, that can heal you. God has never give man power to heal another. What the healing is, is faith in the finished work that Christ did for His church at Calvary. It is something that's already been finished. It isn't power is given unto men. It's power in ... it's faith in what has already been appropriated for the church. Salvation, salvation is first. And salvation... You say... I might ask tonight, "How many's been saved two years?"...
Abraham
56-1208 §47
Now, healing belongs alone to God. It's the finished work of Christ at Calvary. Don't forget that, church, whatever you do. And every blessing that's in everything that you lost in the fall, Christ redeemed back to you at Calvary. It's been finished two thousand years ago. Every person that's ever healed, every person that's ever saved was saved when Jesus died at the cross and finished the work. He screamed to the Father, "It's finished": All of it, the complete plan of salvation. And now we have the earnest of ou...