A Catechism for Girls and Boys

Part III: Questions about Salvation

79. Q. What is it to believe in Christ?
      A. A person believes who knows that his only hope is Christ and trusts in Christ alone for salvation. 

(Click through to read scriptural proof.)

• John 14:6
  

  Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

• Acts 4:12

  And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

• 1 Timothy 2:5

  For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus… .

• 1 John 5:11-12
  

  And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.

Scripture quoted from the English Standard Version.

Taken from A Catechism for Girls and Boys found here.

Previously posted questions and answers.