Question about salvation: Is biblical salvation based on deeds or on faith?

Question

If you say dees, please tell me what those deeds are that assures you salvation?

If you said faith, please tell me what do you need to believe for that faith?

Answer 1

http://av1611.com/kjbp/salvation.html

Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast. 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Answer 2

Biblical salvation is based on faith and not our deeds because ones deeds cannot save him/her. The belief that Jesus Christ died for the sins of the world is all we can do to be saved. Based on that belief, a relationship with God is formed and eventually the deeds follow instinctively. No deed can truly save us. Just trust and faith in God.

Answer 3

You can't do anything to obtain salvation. Put your faith and trust in what the Lord Jesus Christ did for you on the cross. He died for your sins, He was buried and took your sins away and He rose again the third day for your justification. He did it all. 1 Corinthians 15: 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 1 Corinthians 15: 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: Romans 4: 25 Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification. Ephesians 2: 8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Ephesians 2: 9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

Answer 4

Works come after salvation. Eph. 2:8-9
Faith is what it takes. When the Holy Spirit shows you that you are lost, then that is when you need to be saved. Faith is like being blind. You just step out knowing you cannot see, but yet you believe God is there.

Answer 5

Faith. Here's how it works:

First, the Law of Moses teaches us that we are sinful and deserve judgment. Second, the Gospel of Jesus offers us forgiveness for our sins.

This two-part message of God's Word gives us despair for our wickedness, and hope for reconciliation to God. Then that's where Baptism comes in. Baptism is a token of God's promise of salvation. It gives substance to that promise, and is outward evidence of the inner change that God works in us for our salvation.

So faith, according to Christian teaching, is "the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen." Therefore, in Baptism we receive from God the gift of faith to receive His promise of salvation.

Another way of putting it is that when a promise is made for the future, the promise must be received by faith. And so God promises us salvation, and through baptism gives us the faith capable of receiving that promise.

God further builds that faith through the Sacrament of Holy Communion. When we receive Christ's true body and blood, we are receiving, here and now, a genuine portion of the eternal reward promised to us--you could call it an earnest payment if that helps, though it's an imperfect analogy.

Answer 6

Oh, here we go again.

All right. Despite what others *think* they know about the Catholic faith, and how eager they are to tell everyone else what Catholics believe, hold onto your seats: We believe in salvation by grace, through faith, and NOT by works OF THE LAW which is exactly what Ephesians 2: 8-9 is talking about -- these verses being the favorite ones to throw at our feet and say "see, see? No works, no works!". But they conveniently leave out the very next one, verse 10: "For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do".

The argument that we will do good works because of the Holy Spirit dwelling within us is true, as far as it goes, but what people are forgetting is that our free will is still very much in full operation -- and so is our concupiscence, or tendency to sin. If everything we did after our "moment" of conversion was directed by the Holy Spirit within us, that would negate our dignity as individuals being able to choose what we do -- and that's not what happens. We can still choose to do what is contrary to God. And we can, if we persist, separate ourselves from Him by what we do even after we have believed, in faith, through grace.

John 10:29 does say "no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand". And that is true. But they can, and do, walk away of their own will and actions. If that were not the case, then believers would be little more than robots; something God never intended for us to be.

That's why we "work out our salvation with fear and trembling". Work *out*, not work *for*.

Answer 7

Since God is sovereign and all powerful, no one can force God to save them by any means (works) ... so salvation will always remain a free gift.

Faith in Jesus Christ and his church is typically declared through the sacrament of baptism ... and when done as Catholics usually do it ... during infancy ... baptism remains as the most definitive demonstration of salvation without any works at all ... according to the grace of God, and the faith of his authentic church.

But since the operational principle and purpose of the new covenant church is the keeping and fulfillment of God's universal law of love, as we have been empowered to do by his abundant grace ... faith without works is dead.

Faith and works cannot be separated. Never could. One cannot truly exist without the other.

Answer 8

Faith, believe that Jesus is God's only Son and that He loves you so much that Jesus died on a cross to pay for the wrong things (sin) we have done. He was raised from the dead three days latter as a victor over death, pain and suffering. All you have to do is ask Jesus to come into your heart and forgive you of your sin and to make you clean." For God so loved the that He gave His only Son that whoever believes in Jesus they will live for ever in heaven but those who don't will be in hell forever" John 3:16 From a Jesus Freak

Answer 9

Salvation is by undeserved kindness or grace through belief in Christ's ransom. Paul called it the Law of Faith.

He asked, do we abolish law, no, he said we establish law. The law was that of love of neighbor as oneself. This is an active law. Christ said, "do unto others as you want them to do to you."

And Paul said, I believe therefore I preach or speak. It is for this reason that the scripture states that 'we have been created for good works." (Eph 2:10)

Christian good works, the works of repentance that Christ and John the baptist talked about is a must for salvation.

These works include the looking out for fellow Christians, poor, widows, orphans, the preaching of the word, and other fine works and the abstaining from all sin and ungodliness.

In Revelation we are told that he comes to reward all according to their works. We were also told not to give out in good works until the end so as not to be disqualified.

Thus the simple explanation is this: A. faith is needed to be declared righteous through Christ blood. B. works are needed to prove faith.

Paul, James, Jesus and others stated this principle.

http://bythebible.page.tl/Works-%26-Faith.htm

So for those that like to quote Paul's Ephesians 2:9, above is quoted 2:10 and here is Paul again:

Romans 2:6-7 . . . who will render to each man according to his works, 7to those who indeed seek by perseverance of good work, glory and esteem and immortality--eternal life-- . . . (ACV)

Answer 10

I believed we are saved by faith in Jesus Christ's death in our stead and faith in how that frees us from sin. But when you realize the price Jesus paid to set you free from sin why would want to go on sinning? (That's when deeds or works come in even though works do not save you, it is a result of faith.) You let Jesus into your heart, surrender your sinful desires to Him daily, let Him work through you and change you from the inside out for His glory. So that you actually want to do His will and keep His commandments.

Answer 11

The word salvation implies that something is to be saved. Saved from what ? Saved from oneself.
The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
John 19:7

The laws they were speaking of were the Laws of Moses.
Jesus told us in John 6:32 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.

In John 1:17 it states, "for the laws were given by Moses, but grace and (Truth) came by Jesus Christ. Jesus is telling was that the Words Moses spoke did not come from heaven and the Words that Moses spoke were not the truth.

Jesus said in John 4:22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

Yes this is where the scripture comes from, "for salavation is of the Jews" The Jews needed to be saved, because they believed in false doctrine, Jesus said to love thy enemies, but they wanted to kill Jesus,just because He spoke the truth. They needed the truth to be saved, and the truth shall make you free, being free from sin is to know the truth about God.

Grace is not for the Jews, grace is for the gentiles, because the gentilel were not deceived into practicing a false doctrine, as the Jews where, Gentile did not need to be saved. They did not have to be born agin, to forget everything they ever knew about God and be taught the truth about God

It is based upon you good works (deeds), if you have faith, then you believe, if you believe in your heart, then you will do all the things you say you believe in, but if you do not believe in your heart, you will not do the things that call for great scarafice, because you have doubt that what you believe is true. So you put your deeds were your mouth is, if you believe, then do it, do it all, not just the things that are easy.