I see. I used these texts from the Holy Scriptures, as follows:
1.) Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the Living God.
Matthew 16:15-19,
John 3:36, 1 John 2:22, 1 John 5:1 & 20
2.) God raised Jesus from the dead.
Romans 10:9-13
3.) We must be born again through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ, a.k.a. the Gospel.
John 3:3-7, 1 Corinthians 15:1-4
4. Salvation is by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, and not of works.
Ephesians 2:8-9
5. We need to love God and one another, i.e. the 1st and 2nd Commandments
Mark 12:29-32
6. We need to love Jesus at His appearing, i.e. maintain our blessed hope.
1 Corinthians 16:22,
Titus 2:13
7. The Bible is the final authority for faith and practice.
2 Timothy 3:16-17
All of the verses given above are positive affirmations of what we have to believe in order to be saved and/or stay saved. They are, in effect, commandments given to us by God, Christ, or the Holy Spirit through an Apostle.
Jesus is the foundation of all that we are (
1 Corinthians 3:11). With Jesus as the cornerstone are apostles and prophets (
Ephesians 2:20-22).
Therefore, anything that either the cornerstone, or those who make up the foundation of New Jerusalem command and teach, becomes automatically necessary for faith and practice.
The above seven items are given as the bare minimum, as I felt led to share them. I may be wrong, knowing I am not the final authority on what God considers His bare minimum. But in my knowledge of the Bible, I can't think of any other passage of Scripture that clearly demands more than the 7 things above in order to be saved.
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