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.
Look
63-0428 §56
...t, because you refused the Word that brings you into relationship with Christ. That's right. So... But Moses looked out of this window. He believed it. Why? Moses looked by faith. That's how Moses looked. Now listen real close to this remark. Faith ... now don't forget to get this now. Faith is designed to see what God wills and wants. There is no knowledge that can do that. Faith alone is designed and give to the human race to find out what the will of God is. And you take your faith that you've got and it don't f...
Enticing spirits
55-0724 §38
What is it? It's enticing spirits coming down, trying to substitute something for the Word of God. God has no substitute for his Word. It's eternal and forever. God has nothing to substitute faith. Faith has no substitute. Hope will never take the place of faith. Faith is alone ... it stands alone. It'll never take the... Hope can never take its place. Hope is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen ... or, faith is, rather, see. Hope is one thing; faith is another. Hope hopes for it; fai...
Faith
57-1229 §35
...le who knows the Bible, to know that I'd be deceiving. I have no powers to heal. Neither is there any man in the world got powers to heal. It's only through Christ and your faith in the finished work. Every sinner can be saved just now, by what? Because Jesus comes down and saves you now? No, because He saved you when He died for you at Calvary. It was finished. The whole plan of salvation, and for your healing. It's your personal faith in the living God.
The water of separation
55-0121 §32
Now, what...? Thy faith has required... See, your own power of faith has pulled from the supernatural God the desire of your heart, see. It's your faith that does it, not my faith. If my faith is doing it, I'd pull every little child out of that audience tonight and bring them up here and make them well, little children anyhow, see. I would do it. But it's not my faith that does it; it's your faith that does it. It's not me that knows it; I'm just a man. But it's the gift of God, see. It's Him that does it. It's no...
Hidden Life with Christ
56-0213 §23
It depends on where your faith stands. Your salvation is good as long as your confession is good. But when your confession drops, then your salvation's gone. For He is a High Priest sitting at the right hand of God to make intercessions on your confession; that's what happens. So I wonder why it is then with salvation and healing also, that people become at this low ebb. Now, I want to say that the reason of it is... I believe I can explain it to you if you'll be reverent and listen closely now.