I would suggest after 42 pages of back and forth on this one central question: What must I do to be saved? That the person who is asking that for their soul's sake read the Bible. Not this forum!
God is not a man that he should lie. Numbers 23:19
Read the Synoptic Gospels. Those are the first three books in the new testament. Matthew, Mark, Luke. Then, take God's word for it as to how to be saved. Because Jesus was God in flesh.
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that
whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."
John 3:5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.
God's holy spirit enters into the repentant the moment they believe in Jesus/God. Repent of your sins, meaning your life prior to realizing you can't get through the rest of your life alone; without Christ.
God knows all that you've done. He's known you before he created this world. Repentance is a process of realizing by recollection what we've done thinking our ego and self and pride could navigate our life. It is also humbling. When we live so many years before coming to repentance what we've done doesn't seem to have that much weight on our soul.
However, if we reflect on all that we've done, all that we can recall, and this can take quite awhile so do not hurry yourself, we come to recognize just how much we did wrong in light of what God calls right-eous.
You are saved the moment you believe in Christ and his dying to reunite you with the divine origin of all things. Sin, thinking the flesh and this world is all there is and living to accomplish in that realm, is what separates us from that source within us. We think material and that focus obscures our awareness of spirit.
So you don't have to fully repent in order to be saved. Repentance can take months, years even. God can guide us to remember all that we've done if we wish to repent of all things. If we wish to repent prior to being saved, we can do that. But God knows us , those who are his sheep, by name. And when we respond to his call, that pull that makes us first realize we want Christ to guide our life, we're saved. Because that is belief in Christ.
While you may repent for months, or years, remember this. God does not hold all that you recall against you anymore. The moment you are in Christ, saved, hold faith in Christ, God the Father, who was Jesus in flesh, wiped your past that you're recalling and repenting, from his memory for all time.
Before that was what made you to be dead in that realm of sin. Dead as flesh ages and decays dead. Because that is what you were living in and for. The material things. The self satisfaction and gain things. When you found your calling to Christ and responded to his awesome free irrevocable, meaning he'll never take it back, gift of salvation that he gave because of his grace and love for you, you became immortal. The flesh will age and die. But that you have reunited with the spirit inside you that was put there by God you will live for eternity united with God when you do die.
Look, people have argued what the Bible says and what it's saying means since the Bible came to print. They even argued when our faith was taught verbally, before printing.
As you can see here in this thread nothing about that has changed. People see what they believe.
But the word of God lasts for ever. Does that mean the word on the page in the Bible? No!
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Read Genesis 1. God created all things from no thing with just his word. That vibration, that tone, that became manifestation. "And God said....."
Too often dear reader who seeks the truth of God in Christ, the faithful in Christ adore and worship the Bible. When they must adore and worship the Word that created the narrative that is contained in that book.
God's many blessings light your path as you walk in the way.
Amen.
John 11:26“And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. ....