Faith Alone Saves
Atwood, how about being considerate of others by not posting half the NT every time you make a point. Do you really think people read all that?
When proof is required that faith alone saves, proof may well be given. There is just a lot of it, as opposed to the few verses where an unbeliever may want to dwell that mention baptize. If someone want to claim that scripture doesn't make salvation conditioned on faith alone, evidence is appropriate. In fact a second post is needed because the system here won't post it all in one post.
FAITH ALONE!
Gal 2:15-16
We being Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,
16 yet knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but through
faith in Jesus Christ, even we
believed on Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by
faith in Christ, and not by the works of the law: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.
Gal 3:
This only would I learn from you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of
faith?
3 Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now perfected in the flesh?
4 Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain.
5 He therefore that supplieth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you,
doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the hearing of
faith?
6 Even as Abraham
believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.
7 Know therefore that they that are of
faith, the same are sons of Abraham.
8 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by
faith, preached the gospel beforehand unto Abraham,
saying, In thee shall all the nations be blessed.
9 So then they that are of
faith are blessed with the
faithful Abraham.
10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one who continueth not in all things that are written in the book of the law, to do them.
11 Now that no man is justified by the law before God, is evident: for, The righteous shall live by
faith;
12 and the law is not of
faith; but, He that doeth them shall live in them.
13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
14 that upon the Gentiles might come the blessing of Abraham in Christ Jesus; that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through
faith.
Gal 3:22ff
But the scripture shut up all things under sin, that the promise by
faith in Jesus Christ might be given to them that
believe. But before
faith came, we were kept in ward under the law, shut up unto the
faith which should afterwards be revealed. So that the law is become our tutor
to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by
faith. But now that
faith is come, we are no longer under a tutor. For ye are all sons of God, through
faith, in Christ Jesus.
Gal 5:5-6
For we through the Spirit by
faith wait for the hope of righteousness. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but
faith working through love.
Philip 3:8-9
Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ, and be found in him, not having a righteousness of mine own,
even that which is of the law, but that which is through
faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by
faith:
Col 2:6
As therefore ye received Christ Jesus the Lord,
so walk in him,
7 rooted and builded up in him, and established in your
faith, even as ye were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
2 Tim 3:15b
the sacred writings which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through
faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Titus 1:4
to Titus, my true child after a common
faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.
Heb 3:19ff
And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief. Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.
2 For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not united by
faith with them that heard. For we who have
believed do enter into that rest;
Heb 10:39
But we are not of them that shrink back unto perdition; but of them that have
faith unto the saving of the soul.
Heb 11:7
By
faith Noah, being warned
of God concerning things not seen as yet, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; through which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is according to
faith.
1 Pet 1:3ff
Blessed
be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy begat us again unto a living hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
4 unto an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you,
5 who by the power of God are guarded through
faith unto a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.
6 Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, ye have been put to grief in manifold trials,
7 that the proof of your
faith,
being more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
8 whom not having seen ye love; on whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice greatly with joy unspeakable and full of glory:
9 receiving the end of your
faith,
even the salvation of
your souls.
1 John 5:4-5
4 For whatsoever is begotten of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that hath overcome the world,
even our
faith.
5 And who is he that overcometh the world, but he that
believes that Jesus is the Son of God?