How is a person saved?

Grace.

Eph 2: 8&9 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith--and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God--not by works, so that no one can boast.

Powerful, thank you...

A person is saved when they:

Believe in God and Jesus Christ

Believe that Jesus died and rose again for your sins

Trusts fully and only on God, meaning that you don't believe in God and evolution or allah or something else .

If you truly want to be saved, then pray to God, tell him you believe and you want him to come into your heart and life. There are common misconceptions out there that you have to live a perfect life to be saved or that there are exact words that need to be said, but they are wrong. The Bible says that you are saved through faith not works. Good luck and God bless.

Ephesians 2:8-9 (New International Version)

8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast.

It is not what we do but instead what Jesus did for us and our acceptance of Him and His gift of salvation.

What Apostle Paul was speaking about was "Works of the LAW" most ministers and churches get this WRONG! It's not referring to "GOOD WORKS". That is a different type of Works.

The "Laws" of the Old Testament such as animal sacrifices for atonement, washing rules, eating restrictions, special observations, solemn assemblies, commandments, on and on was a yoke around the neck. It was impossible to become perfected and acceptable to GOD, the FATHER through these WORKS.

But by GRACE brought by Our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST, we have salvation. HE has done all of the WORK for us forever. We no longer need to perform animal sacrifices for atonement.

JESUS is our atonement.

So now all we have to do is confess with our mouth GOD'S SON as our LORD AND SAVIOR and just like Our HEAVENLY FATHER spoke and the earth was created, we speak and HE empowers us to become HIS Son/Daughter in CHRIST.

Hope this helps..........

EDITED:

"For by grace you have been saved through faith,

and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not

of works, lest anyone should boast."

(Ephesians 2:8,9)

2:8 FAITH, AND THAT NOT OF YOURSELVES.

"That" refers to the entire previous satetment of salvation,

not only the grace but the faith. Althought men are required

to believe for salvation, even that fiath is part of the gift of

God which saves & cannot be exercised by one's own

power. God's grace is preeminent in every aspect of

salvation (Romans 3:20; Galatians 2:16)

So, a person is saved by Repenting & Trust in Jesus ALONE

to save them. When God, by grace, grants "saving faith" it

includes the granting of repentance from sin. Neither is

human work.

"in humility correcting those who are in opposition, if *God* perhaps will *grant them repentance*, so that they may know the truth, and that they may know the truth, and that they may come to their senses & escape teh snare of the devil, having been taken captive by him to do his will"

(2 Timothy 2:25-26)

"GOD... WILL GRANT THEM REPENTANCE"

Acts 11:18; see 2 Corinthians 7:9,10. All true repentance is produced by God's Sovereign Grace (Eph.2:7), and without such grace human effort to change is futile (Jeremiah 13:23).

8 For by grace(Jesus) are ye saved through faith(total Belief in Him); and that not of yourselves(nothing we can add to what HE did in Anyway): it is the gift of God:(he Gave His All for us )

9 Not of works, (no baptisms , no rituals, no traditions, no attending a building, no customs, etc etc) lest any man should boast. (No man or woman can say they did anything to add to or take away from Christs Free Gift of Himself to mankind , it had NOthing to do with our abilities in any manner)

I think that sums it up pretty well !!!

Are there scriptures that definitely show that some will never be saved?

2 Thess. 1:9, RS: “They shall suffer the punishment of eternal destruction and exclusion from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might.” (Italics added.)

Rev. 21:8, RS: “As for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.”

Matt. 7:13, 14, RS: “Enter by the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is easy, that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that leads to life, and those who find it are few.”

Once a person is saved, is he always saved?

Jude 5, RS: “I desire to remind you, though you were once for all fully informed, that he who saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.” (Italics added.)

Matt. 24:13, RS: “He who endures to the end will be saved.” (So a person’s final salvation is not determined at the moment that he begins to put faith in Jesus.)

Phil. 2:12, RS: “As you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.” (This was addressed to “the saints,” or holy ones, at Philippi, as stated in Philippians 1:1. Paul urged them not to be overly confident but to realize that their final salvation was not yet assured.)

Heb. 10:26, 27, RS: “If we sin deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful prospect of judgment, and a fury of fire which will consume the adversaries.” (Thus the Bible does not go along with the idea that no matter what sins a person may commit after he is “saved” he will not lose his salvation. It encourages faithfulness. See also Hebrews 6:4-6, where it is shown that even a person anointed with holy spirit can lose his hope of salvation.)

Is anything more than faith needed in order to gain salvation?

Eph. 2:8, 9, RS: “By grace [“undeserved kindness,” NW] you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God—not because of works, lest any man should boast.” (The entire provision for salvation is an expression of God’s undeserved kindness. There is no way that a descendant of Adam can gain salvation on his own, no matter how noble his works are. Salvation is a gift from God given to those who put faith in the sin-atoning value of the sacrifice of his Son.)

Heb. 5:9, RS: “He [Jesus] became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey him.” (Italics added.) (Does this conflict with the statement that Christians are “saved through faith”? Not at all. Obedience simply demonstrates that their faith is genuine.)

Jas. 2:14, 26, RS: “What does it profit, my brethren, if a man says he has faith but has not works? Can his faith save him? For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead.” (A person does not earn salvation by his works. But anyone who has genuine faith will have works to go with it—works of obedience to the commands of God and Christ, works that demonstrate his faith and love. Without such works, his faith is dead.)

Acts 16:30, 31, RS: “‘Men, what must I do to be saved?’ And they [Paul and Silas] said, ‘Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.’” (If that man and his household truly believed, would they not act in harmony with their belief? Certainly.)

Ephesians 2:8

Where do we get the faith that is required for salvation? Ephesians 2:8 answers: "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God." We cannot work it up—that would be our effort (Isaiah 64:6).

Consider when God first started working with us. One year we were clueless, the next year things were making sense. We read the Bible and understood it, but more importantly, we believed it.

Where did that belief come from? It was, as Ephesians 2:8 says, a gift from God. The real miracle is not that we understood, but rather that we now believed those words we understood. And this happened only because God made it possible.

What was the evidence that we believed those words? We began living by them. Our new works and actions were the evidence of our faith: keeping the Sabbath, tithing, eating habits, etc.

Just like Abraham, our actions showed our desire to begin a right relationship with God motivated by His gift of faith. "Don't you remember that our ancestor Abraham was declared right with God because of what he did when he offered his son Isaac on the altar? You see, he was trusting God so much that he was willing to do whatever God told him to do. His faith was made complete by what he did—by his actions" (James 2:21-22, New Living Translation).

To complete our faith, are we willing to believe and do whatever God tells us? Consider those first experiences as we began to believe. We faced family pressure, work pressure, peer pressure, etc., to obey what we now believed. What evidence did we have to back up our actions? All we had were God's words. Armed with only those words, we willingly faced any opposition to act on what God commands. Just like Abraham, it was our faith in those words that encouraged us to obey and begin our journey, not knowing where we were going (Hebrews 11:8).

At our baptism, could we have predicted all the twists and turns our lives have taken since? Just like Israel's journey after baptism in the Red Sea, God has taken us in a zigzag route across this wilderness we call life. What was our evidence of things not seen? Only the words of God. That was the only evidence we had then, and it is the only sure evidence we have now.

As we deal with our trials, do we remember that first love? Do we remember the challenges we were willing to confront with only the words of God as our evidence? It is no different today. Will we believe God or what we can see? God needs to find out just as He did with Abraham—to "know" we will obey, no matter what, until the end (Matthew 10:22).

To test our faith, God's pattern is to bring us to a point—a brick wall or a Red Sea—that seemingly allows no escape. That is where He can find out what is truly in our hearts—hearts of belief or evil unbelief (Hebrews 3:12). Will we believe Him or our eyes?

It is because of the grace of God that we are saved, and we have that, because of His shed blood upon the cross, for those who will receive Him, know He is Lord and Savior and Messiah, That will repent of their sins and turn from them and turn to Him instead.

That is the only way to be saved.

Full Gospel Shirley

By taking a leap of faith into the supernatural in believing that God and Jesus Christ is there for us to give us strength and will to do His will in accordance to the laws for peace and refuge.

GOD BLESS! AMEN! SHALOM!