Slight changes: Strictly speaking, Christ is our salvation, not faith.

The slight changes in the following include the fact that Christ alone saved us---not faith alone. The faith is simply the wonderful sign he gives us to tell us we have been saved. Faith is not our salvation, Christ is. But faith is the gift he gives us to know that we have been given the gift of salvation--the assurance that we will be with him forever someday. The Gospel is indeed the comfort of true Christians. "He who believes in me has everlasting life." (John 6:47) "He who hears my word and believes in He who sent me has eternal life and shall not be condemned. He has passed from live to death. (John 5:23)

Affirmations of Belief

The gospel is God's promise to save His people based on the substitutionary death and imputed righteousness of his sinless only Son, Jesus. Jesus tells us we can know we are those who have been chosen to live forever with him if we believe (have faith) that he alone has won everlasting life (salvation) for us. These gifts of faith and salvation are given totally apart from the sinner’s works and efforts.


He who believes in me has everlasting life. John 6:47

Salvation
The sinner’s sure sign that he or she has receiving everlasting li fe is the faith to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, who died a substitutionary death on the cross and rose bodily from the dead. (John 3:16-18; 6:47; Acts 16:31).

Faith is the conviction that something is true. To believe in Jesus (“he who believes in Me has everlasting life”) is to be convinced that He guarantees everlasting life to all who simply believe in Him for it (John 4:14 ; 5:24 ; 6:47 ; 11:26 ; 1 Tim 1:16 ).

No act of obedience, preceding or following faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, such as commitment to obey, sorrow for sin, turning from one’s sin, baptism or submission to the Lordship of Christ, may be added to, or20considered part of, faith as a condition for receiving everlasting life (Rom 4:5; Gal 2:16; Titus 3:5). This saving transaction between God and the sinner is simply the giving and receiving of a free gift (Eph 2:8-9; John 4:10 ; Rev 22:17 ).