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.
Have faith in God
54-0900 §28
...mbling, committing adultery: that isn't sin. That's the attributes of sin. You do that because you're not a believer. And peace, and joy, and love, and goodness: That isn't salvation. You do that because you are a believer, see, see. That's... The whole thing hangs on whether you are a believer or not a believer. If you're not a believer, you're a doubter. You say it isn't right and you do things that you oughtn't to do; that's because you're an unbeliever. And so the Bible said, "Go, and disbelieve no more or a wo...
The fundamental foundation for faith
55-0113 §49
...n... I want to ask you ministers something. How can you deal with sin without dealing with sickness? You cannot deal with sin on any measure, without dealing with sickness, for sickness is an attribute of sin. You can't touch sickness ... or, sin nowhere without dealing with sickness and all of its attributes. For sin is the main... It's the head of the serpent. Kill the head, you've actually killed the body. And you can't kill it at the head without killing the body. So, if He just come to heal us and not to save...
Condemnation by Representation
60-1113 §9
...is depending on the Catholic church (which is their fundamental doctrine) ... but if he believes that that Catholic church is going to save him, he's lost; but if he's got faith in Jesus Christ, God's Son, and depending on Him for salvation, he's saved." If a Methodist, or a Pentecostal, or a Baptist---if they're depending on their church or organization to save them, they're lost; but if they're depending on Jesus Christ and accepted Him ... because it's your own personal faith in Christ Jesus that saves us. Whet...
I perceive You are a prophet
53-0614E §19
For no matter how much I would pray for you, if you yourself didn't have the faith, it wouldn't do any good. That's right. It takes your faith. And no matter how much I preach to you and how well I brought the Gospel to you, if you yourself... It's your own personal faith in Christ that saves you. Is that right? I couldn't save you, no matter how bad I'd want to. I've got brothers that's not saved. And I've tried my best and persuaded, and cried, and begged, and tried to stand in the breach for them. But they've go...
Hebrews, Chapter 6, part 3
57-0915M §31
...hat...) " He that heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, has eternal life, and shall never come to the judgment; but is passed from death unto life." It's your faith. And your faith, confessed by your lips, make manifest to the people that can hear, but your life is open before all. So, no matter how much you try to act this and do this, it'll never work; it's got to be in you. That's the real kernel of the whole story. Your personal faith in the resurrected Christ, as your Saviour; that He's at the ri...