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 faith once delivered to the saints
55-0501E §8
...our time now, speak to you a few moments till we catch the anointing of the Spirit. And just as soon as it catches, well, then I'll ... I stop the service and start praying for the sick. Thank you and God bless you. Now, we wish to turn into the Scriptures just for a few moments of meditations, on the Bible. I love the Word. Oh, I just wished I could express it. You know where I preach my best sermons? In my prayer room at home or somewhere, or in the bed. I lay at nighttime and you get anointed with the Holy Spiri...
Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever
55-1113 §8
...ct of divine healing, I lay it all to Calvary, and the finished works of our Lord Jesus at Calvary. It's not any mentally emotion, any work-up, any psychic. It's truly your faith in the finished work at Calvary. I believe that all salvation ... that every sinner was forgiven of his sins when Jesus died at Calvary. Every creature that would ever be on the earth was thoroughly ... his salvation was paid for when Jesus died at Calvary. Now, it'll never do him any good until his own personal faith accepts that finished...
Fellowship
62-0519 §47
That's as clean as I know the gospel, brethren. That's the only salvation I know of. That's only where my faith is built, right there---the blood of Jesus Christ---Emmanuel's veins, where sinners plunged beneath the blood lose all their guilty stains. And when we come into that, underneath that blood and recognize ourselves sinners, and come out on the other side, and He seals our belief like that by his Holy Spirit---the same Holy Spirit that wrote the Bible and put every word into it---how can that Holy Spirit tu...
Tested faith produces goods
58-0518 §5
...be shot by a firing squad in so many days. But a good man who was acquainted with the President---I believe being Lincoln at the time---they went to Mr. Lincoln and pleaded for the life of this dear person; saying, "Mr. Lincoln, maybe he has done the crime, but you have the power to release him or the power to kill him." And said, "He's a mortal being, he was raised in a good home. Why don't you give him a chance?" And Mr. Lincoln, kind-hearted, generous Christian gentleman as he was, he said, "I'll do that." And h...
Expectation
55-1001 §26
Now, your intellectual faith will reason. You'll say, "Now, I know the Bible teaches that, certainly. But let me think now, the days of miracles is past. Pastor said so, somebody said so. I believe that this day we don't have that." Now, see, you're using intellectual faith. And that intellectual faith will reason with God's Word, but a born again experience from the heart will not reason; it will say, "God's Word's right. There's no more to do with it; it's right." Because something down here that says it itself;...