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.
Faith
56-0427 §42
...I rest, right there. God said so. I'm not saved tonight because I feel like it. I'm not saved by feelings. I'm saved because I believed it and met the conditions the Bible required. The devil can beat you around the stump. Tomorrow morning you may get up with a headache and feel like you's a million miles away, but God's grace holds tight. Yes, sir. Yes, sir, not what you feel but what you believe. Jesus never did say, "Did you feel it?" He said, "Did you believe it?" And that's right. The difference, quite a diff...
It is I, be not afraid
61-0213 §3
Now, you have to accept it for your own personal affair. You say, "I'm the sinner and Christ died for me, and I'm the one He died for. So therefore, tonight I come on the basis of the shed blood, and I accept my salvation, knowing there's nothing that I can do within myself. And I'm wholly and fully trusting Him tonight, and believing that He does save me according to his promise." Then you're saved, no matter if you have a sensation or not a sensation. You're saved by faith in the finished work at Calvary. Now, th...
Palmerworm, locust, cankerworm, caterpillar
59-0823 §46
Now one of the first things that I'd like to speak to you for at least a few minutes. After we have found out that the foundation must be original, it must go back to the foundation, it must go back to where it was a vine. If something's wrong with it, and the vine's not operating right, let's go back and find out what's wrong. Now one of the first things that I'd like to mention, is that something has gone from our church; one of the main things is faith. The people don't have faith today like they had in that day...
Faith without works is dead
50-0822 §37
...? Where everything, where the law failed, where'd the houses of the correction fail? Where'd medical science fail? The Blood of Jesus Christ took up and can't fail. Why? By faith. Why, the power of God that would change a prostitute to a saint, a drunkard to a--a righteous woman... Why that, by the same power will take any cancer, deaf, dumb, blind, crippled... For the same Blood, from the same Man, on the same day, atoned for your healing that atones for your salvation. Is that the truth? He was wounded for your t...
When their eyes were opened
56-0420 §19
Now, then we have a right then, we come to God, and ask Him for His help. And that's what we're here for tonight. Now, if I'm telling you the work is already finished, which the Bible declares that it is finished, then what could I do for it, if it's already finished? The only thing I can do is point you to the time it was finished and the Scripture that says it was finished, and that's about all that can be done. It rests within your personal faith in the finished works of Jesus Christ at Calvary. That's the only...