Jesus Christ is both perfect God and sinless Man, who was sacrificed on the cross for the sins of the entire human race, after which He died, was buried, and, three days later, was resurrected from the dead. 

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Salvation occurs when the unbeliever responds with non-meritorious faith alone in Christ alone (Ephesians 2:8– 9). This faith response has both purpose and result: The purpose is deliverance from punishment in the lake of fire. The result is the imputation of eternal life. Taken together, salvation means that believers go to heaven when they die (John 3:16).

Once a person expresses personal faith in Jesus Christ, he becomes a son of God, receives the imputation of God’s perfect righteousness, and is adopted into His royal family – once a son, always a son. A believer’s salvation is eternally secure. "For by grace you have been saved, and this [salvation] is not from yourselves; it is a gift from God, not by works, lest any man should boast" (Ephesians 2:8-9).

Grace is all that God is free to do for the believer based on the substitutionary sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross. Grace, to be grace, must never include human works. Grace is unmerited favor that functions in harmony with the essence of God. The source of grace must always be from God, never man. We are saved through grace (Ephesians 2:8-9), we are provided all our necessities through grace (Matt 6:33; Phil 4:19), and our spiritual growth is by means of grace (2 Pet 3:18).