Am I correct with my understanding of this? Faith in Jesus alone = salvation

Which would include that he is the Son of God? This is all that I can gather from a reading of John 3:14-18 (KJV) when reading it honestly and not trying to bend words into it. What I am struck by is 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 and to a smaller extent Romans 3:21-26 and Romans 10:9, which seem to put a different emphasis on salvation. In 1 Corinthians 15:1-4 the gospel seems to be the object of belief, that one is saved by believing the gospel, which I suppose might not be what Paul is trying to communicate. In Romans 3:25 it seems to be saying that salvation comes by faith in Jesus' blood when read a certain way, though, this verse and surrounding verses can be read another way to be completely in line with how I read John 3. In Romans 10:9 in the KJV it says that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. This makes sense too considering John 3 since if you believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead you would believe in Jesus, along with confessing him with your mouth (I cannot read these words the way they are put forth in the NIV and ESV, "that if you confess with your mouth "Jesus is Lord" and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved", they don't read like that to me, though I am not saying that that is not what they mean, and I understand they are translating from the Greek), though I don't understand why the "goal post" is moved here from belief in Jesus to something else, though the preceding verses seem to necessitate the language.

The solace in this is that all these issues can be reconciled in that none of these verses can contradict the point of view that belief in Jesus alone is what constitutes salvation, i.e. there is no problem. It is just disconcerting reading these things when I am not entirely sure what constitutes salvation myself, though I lean towards the view that it is belief in Jesus alone, because I don't see how John 3 can be read any other way. I could use some major help in understanding the truth in this. What does constitute salvation? When answering this question please address the things I've written. And please no posts from gotquestions or copy and pastes from other websites unless you have read those materials and agree with what they're saying, but if you do why not put it into your own words? I don't like the regurgitation of materials on the internet and the standard it sets for people to not understand things themselves.

On the topic of gotquestions, they seem to be in line with the belief that it is faith in Jesus' blood that constitutes salvation, though, like I wrote, when I read John 3, I don't see how that is the case.

When responding to me please be patient, I am sincerely trying to understand.

What you are experiencing is the truth that God's one requirement for salvation
can be expressed in various ways that are summarized by the word "faith",
so you will need to employ the semantic/hermeneutic gift of "both-and" logic,
which means being able to harmonize Scripture or see synonyms and essential similarities,
like describing different facets of one diamond or understanding anatomy by adding one system at a time.

For a systematic and rather complete consideration of the doctrine of salvation/soteriology,
please see Lesson 2 (The Christian Creed) of our website: <truthseekersfellowship.com>

LIC, GWH

One has physically act upon what Jesus had said until they are able to get the Father to reveal Himself!

James 2:17 > "Faith without action is useless"

The only thing that involves sacrifice on one's behalf that Jesus mentioned was to give to the poor and needy. Jesus sacrificed his life both physically and symbolically for all the sins of humanity therefor all people need to sacrifice for one another in order to make it to the Father! This is also validated in Romans (written by Paul the Apostle) where one will be judged based on their pursuit of Righteousness and Good Works instead of their sins. Why? Jesus already paid for the sins of humanity therefor people will be judged by how treat one another by their pursuits of Righteousness and Good Works!

No one ever claimed that they made it to the Father just by claiming that they were "Saved!" Everything has to match the Bible 100% and to match Scripture exactly one is required to go through Jesus to get to the Father, correct? Salvation is the Free but the path that leads to that Salvation not Free!

Jesus would have said this exactly but instead Jesus said that few will make it through the narrow gate (Mathew 7:13 ~14) and Jesus was / is God in the living flesh and blood according to the Book of John. This would mean that one would be required to physically do something to get to the Father in order to become "Saved." The only thing that Jesus really asked of His followers that involved physical sacrifice was to give to the poor and needy!