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.
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...
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...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 10:E-12
In this age the hatred of the false vine increases. See, they have (Verse 9) separated themselves from the company of the true. They went out from them. They were liars. They called themselves what they are not. But did God destroy them? No. "Let them alone and both will go to the harvest." "But Lord they should be destroyed for they are destroying Thy people. They are killing them." "No, let them alone. But to My bride I say, 'Be thou faithful unto death. Love Me even more.'"
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,...