Salavation is by Faith (belief and trust) and Confession (works):
“They replied, "Believe in the Lord Jesus and you will be saved, along with everyone in your household,” (Acts 16:31)
”All who confess that Jesus is the Son of God have God living in them, and they live in God.” (1 John 4:15)
”9 If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.” (Romans 10:9-10).
Salavation is by grace of God in Christ (Ephesians 2:8-11, Acts 15:1-11) and not by works of penance or merit (doing good) to get to heaven. The only works is receiving God’s grace through faith in Jesus Christ and confessing this belief (the work, often baptism by water is the most obvious public confession).
Misunderstanding this has split the church into faith and works churches, something the Apostle James addressed, “What use is it, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but he has no works? Can [n]that faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is without clothing and in need of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, [o]be warmed and be filled,” and yet you do not give them what is necessary for their body, what use is that? 17 Even so faith, if it has no works, is [p]dead, being by itself. But someone [q]may well say, “You have faith and I have works; show me your faith without the works, and I will show you my faith by my works.” 19 You believe that [r]God is one. You do well; the demons also believe, and shudder. 20 But are you willing to recognize, you foolish fellow, that faith without works is useless? 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up Isaac his son on the altar?22 You see that faith was working with his works, and [s]as a result of the works, faith was [t]perfected; 23 and the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness,” and he was called the friend of God. 24 You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone. 25 In the same way, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way? 26 For just as the body without thespirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.” (James 2:14-26).
The only work is responding to Jesus and His all sufficient sacrifice with faith and confessing it. This work isn’t us doing anything except receiving grace by believing in it and the One who it comes from Jesus, and confessing our belief. This is what James was trying to say, faith and works; faith and confession.
Even the man on cross next to Jesus believed and confessed:
“But the other criminal rebuked him. “Don’t you fear God,” he said, “since you are under the same sentence? 41 We are punished justly, for we are getting what our deeds deserve. But this man has done nothing wrong.”
42 Then he said, “Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom.[d]”
43 Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.” (Luke 23:40-43).
Once you believe and confess your faith in Jesus Christ you are sealed and saved:
”And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that I shall lose none of those He has given Me, but raise them up at the last day,” (John 6:39)
”Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away,” (John 7:37),
“My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all[a]; no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand.” (John 10:27-29),
“In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation--having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance, with a view to the redemption of God's own possession, to the praise of His glory,” (Ephesians 1:13-14)
“Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.” (Ephesians 4:30)
”Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and anointed us is God, who also sealed us and gave us the Spirit in our hearts as a pledge,” (2 Corinthians 1:21-22)
No one can snatch you out of the hands of Christ and the Father! Nor can anyone remove the Seal of the Holy Spirit.
Hebrews 6:3-6 is a very radical case where I believe someone did not truly convert (believe and confess Jesus) for the right reasons, they did it say to make lots of money like Simeon the Sorcerer, “Now for some time a man named Simon had practiced sorcery in the city and amazed all the people of Samaria. He boasted that he was someone great, 10 and all the people, both high and low, gave him their attention and exclaimed, “This man is rightly called the Great Power of God.”11 They followed him because he had amazed them for a long time with his sorcery. 12 But when they believed Philip as he proclaimed the good news of the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women. 13 Simon himself believed and was baptized. And he followed Philip everywhere, astonished by the great signs and miracles he saw.
14 When the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaria had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to Samaria.15 When they arrived, they prayed for the new believers there that they might receive the Holy Spirit, 16 because the Holy Spirit had not yet come on any of them; they had simply been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus. 17 Then Peter and John placed their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.
18 When Simon saw that the Spirit was given at the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money 19 and said, “Give me also this ability so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit.”
20 Peter answered: “May your money perish with you, because you thought you could buy the gift of God with money! 21 You have no part or share in this ministry, because your heart is not right before God. 22 Repent of this wickedness and pray to the Lord in the hope that he may forgive you for having such a thought in your heart. 23 For I see that you are full of bitterness and captive to sin.”
24 Then Simon answered, “Pray to the Lord for me so that nothing you have said may happen to me.”
25 After they had further proclaimed the word of the Lord and testified about Jesus, Peter and John returned to Jerusalem, preaching the gospel in many Samaritan villages.” (Acts 8:9-25).
Simon the sorcer converted to get powers and he saw all the people getting baptized and go If after Jesus. To keep his esteem he supposably converted so he could keep make my money, and he wanted to buy the Holy Spirit anointing so he could sell it and make people come to him. Simon’s heart became clear when Peter and John arrived. Jesus says we can tell the tree by the fruit (Matthew 7:15-20) and the fruit of Simon the Sorcerer was rotten. Another example of a false convert was the Judaizers confronted in Acts 15 at the Council of Jerusalem, “And certain men came down from Judea and taught the brethren, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.” 2 Therefore, when Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and dispute with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them should go up to Jerusalem, to the apostles and elders, about this question.
3 So, being sent on their way by the church, they passed through Phoenicia and Samaria, describing the conversion of the Gentiles; and they caused great joy to all the brethren. 4 And when they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the church and the apostles and the elders; and they reported all things that God had done with them. 5 But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”
The Jerusalem Council
6 Now the apostles and elders came together to consider this matter. 7 And when there had been much dispute, Peter rose up and said to them: “Men and brethren, you know that a good while ago God chose among us, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel and believe. 8 So God, who knows the heart, [a]acknowledged them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as He did to us, 9 and made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith. 10 Now therefore, why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear? 11 But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus [Christ we shall be saved in the same manner as they.” (Acts 15:1-11).
Hebrews 6 in context is a rebuke to those trying to go back to the law to be saved, and it connects with Galtians 5:4, “those you trying to be saved by the works of the law are cut of from Christ, you have fallen from grace.”
As I already laid out Hebrews 6 is when someone is either like Simon the Sorcerer wanting money and esteem not believing they are sinner in need of Christ the Savior or infiltrators like those of Acts 15:1-3 who want to pollute the Church with false gospels and etc (see Galatians 1:8-9, 2 Corinthians 11:2-16).
If you aren’t a Simon the Sorcerer trying to profit off the gospel and not really believing it or a Acts 15:1-3 Infiltrator then you are indeed safe in the hands of The Father, Jesus Christ, and The Holy Spirit (John 10:28-29, and verses above).
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