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.
Fellowship by redemption
55-0403 §25
Now, a man can have an intellectual faith. And there is where most people get today, calling themselves Christians. The reason you see such carrying on as you do, under the name of Christianity, it's only intellectual faith. "What do you mean by intellectual faith, brother?" This is it... "Man believeth unto salvation. Now, faith cometh by hearing, hearing of the Word." Now, I could preach the Word; you could accept it. Say, "That's all right. Yep, I believe that." Well now, if that's all the farther it ever goes,...
Faith
56-0815 §23
.... You are already saved by grace. That's right. You can't stop eating meat; you can't stop doing this; you can't stop. There's nothing you can do. Christ saves you and that alone. And that's right. You can't even come to Him unless He chooses you first. He said, "You never chose Me, but I chose you. And no man can come to Me, except the Father draws him first. And all that comes, I will give him everlasting life and raise him up at the last day." Amen. That settles it. Oh, my, that would make the Methodists get hap...
Earnestly contending for the faith
55-0123E §2
In the book of Jude we find these verses. At the third verse of the book of Jude. 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 that was once delivered unto the saints. May the Lord add His blessings to the reading of His Word. Now, I believe that this book was written in AD sixty-six. And it was thirty-three years then after Pentecost. And Jude, speaking to the church then, was...
Abraham
60-0803 §6
...here would tell you that that word there in the Greek is sozo, which means just exactly like "saved physically" or "saved spiritually," the same in translation. Sozo---thy faith has "sozo," saved thee. Thy faith saves thee from hell. Thy faith saved thee from death. Thy faith saved thee from sickness. See? It's sozo, the same word. So the same faith that you have in God for your salvation, is the same faith you use for your healing. Just simple. Believe it; act upon it. Doesn't take any sensations; it doesn't take...
Doctor Moses
55-0114 §3
But now, perhaps here's a case that cannot mount up to that spot of faith that would believe. You know that's hard to do? Sometimes we in our emotions even try to accept Jesus as Saviour. But that don't mean we're saved. You say, "Well, I believe." So does Satan. That doesn't mean you're saved. When you're saved, then you're given a seal of your salvation, the baptism of the Holy Spirit. Abraham believed God by faith and it was imputed unto him for righteousness. But God gave him circumcision as a seal, or a confir...