The Gospel: What is the Gospel? How is a person saved?

What is the gospel?

(1 Corinthians 15:3b–4 ESV) That Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures.

How is a person saved? 

(Acts 16:31a ESV) And they said, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved.”

Do I have saving faith?

(Hebrews 10:39 ESV) But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

What is the judgment if anyone preaches another gospel?

(Galatians 1:8–9 ESV) But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach to you a gospel contrary to the one we preached to you, let him be accursed. 9 As we have said before, so now I say again: If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.

How are we warned against neglecting salvation? 

(Hebrews 2:1 ESV) Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.