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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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
The resurrection of Jairus' daughter
54-0331 §31
...nted Him to lay hands on. Said, "Come lay Your hands on my daughter, and she'll get well." Jesus said, "I'll go." And He started on down there, because He knowed if a man's faith ... whether He had a vision or not. Jesus had done said that He did nothing till the Father showed Him. Perhaps there's no vision of it, but yet, He knew the man's faith was sufficient to do the work. The woman that touched Him back there: He never said, "I healed you." He said, "Thy faith has saved thee." And He took his fingers... Two bl...
Whatever He says to you, do it
53-0601 §13
I find here at the platform, about ninety-five percent of the people... Excuse me. May I change that? Ninety-nine percent of the people has hope instead of faith. Well, you say, "I got all faith, Brother Branham." Well, what're you doing here, then? See, your works prove it, see. Now, faith knows no defeat. Faith is perfect. Hope... You say, "Well, I believe there is, I'm hoping for that thing." But faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. So when you believe it, then you go out,...
Faith
56-0815 §11
And you can't deal with sin in any manner unless you're dealing with sickness. That's right. Now, He just didn't die for one stripe, made Him ... for sickness and the other one for salvation. It was all through giving of salvation. "He was wounded for our transgressions; with His stripes we were healed." Just like if a big serpent had his foot in me and was tearing my side out, there's no need of cutting his foot off and arguing whether I'm cutting his foot off or not. Just knock him in the head; it kills the whole...
Convinced and then concerned
62-1125M §24
...rder of his garment, that was the woman using God's gift. See, she pulled from Him, 'cause He said, "I got weak." And He actually didn't tell "I healed you"; He said, "Your faith saved you."---the word "sozo", just like physical salvation, and spiritual salvation, see. "Your faith saved you." Now see, the woman, her own faith did that, believing that He was the Son of God. Now when God wanted to use his gift on Lazarus, He just give Him a vision. He went away, and when He come back He raised a man out of the grave...
Perfect Faith
63-0825E §15
In Hebrews, the book of Hebrews, the 11th chapter, we are told that faith is the substance of things hoped for... Now, here's where many people fail to receive their healing, or what they're asking for, because they take faith to be something that it is not, see. They don't believe it. It's not imagination. It is a actual substance. Now, listen close! See, it is not what you imagine. It's just as real to you as any sense of your body will declare anything else. It's just as real as my eye says, "This is a piece of...