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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The authority of the Word
53-0602 §1
... Christ's name. Amen. If the people could just believe---have faith for all things. Today, way down on the highway, many miles below here, almost to Jeffersonville, I stopped in a little place to eat a sandwich---taking my children, wife, home. And I was eating, and the phone rang. And from way back in another district, someone had seen the car going down the road with the signs on it. And I stopped at the restaurant to go pray for a woman who was nigh unto death. And as I was ministering to the lady---what a pi...
Contending for the Faith
55-0220E §5
Someone not long ago said, "For the glory of God, Brother Branham, I got a little girl here that's crippled, and I want you to heal her for the glory of God, then I'll believe you." And just so happened that there was an infidel standing near. I said, "What more glory would it be for the little girl to be healed than it would be for a sinner to come to the Lord?" I said, "Here stands a man that's absolutely an unbeliever, a perfect infidel. You save him, and I'll heal the child." I said, "For the glory of God... Th...
Contending for the Faith
56-0200 §9
Opening to the Gospel of Saint Jude, in the Bible, which is only one book ... one chapter. And in the 3rd verse of this chapter, I wish to read for just a little text to get a context from it, for what I'd like to speak on for the next few moments. Then we will pray for the sick. Beloved, ... I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and to exhort you that you should earnestly contend for the faith ... once delivered unto the saints. May the Lord add Hi...
The Godhead explained
61-0425B §39
Now, see, it's not the Apostolic Faith Mission, or either is it the Pentecostal Assemblies on the other side. It isn't that. There are fine men in both groups, like there is here. But you see, it's the system of the thing. It's just like the Catholic, as I have often said: if he's a Catholic and depending on Christ for salvation, he's saved. Certainly. That's right. If he's depending on the church, he's lost. Any of you Pentecostal brethren know, if we are looking to the Pentecostal church to save us, we are among...
The Token
63-1128E §29
...death. When a Jew placed his hand upon the sacrifice, he was identifying himself, transferring his sins to his sacrifice, and the sacrifice died. Now we place our hands, by faith, upon Jesus Christ, and are identified with Him in His death. Not only in His death, but, if we are accepted, we are identified not only in His death but in His resurrection. By the life that was in Him, was sent back upon the believer, as a token, a memorial that death has passed from it, and God has sealed you into the kingdom of God unt...