Do You Need (to Hear of and Believe in) Jesus to be Saved?

YES! Let the Word of God speak and take great care not to refute it purposely or inadvertently. Acts 4:12 says "there is salvation in no one else, for there is other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved". Jesus said "no one comes to the Father except through Me" (John 14:6). He is called "savior" many times in Scripture, the "one mediator between God and man", His name itself declaring to us the saving acts of God and our need to believe in Him. John 3:17-18 say that whoever does not believe in Jesus is condemned already. People reject Jesus because their deeds are evil. In Christ alone our hope is found. There is no other way to be saved but through faith in Christ. Romans 10 says that "faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ". Acts 16:31 says "believe in the Lord Jeaus, and you will be saved..."

Hundreds more scriptures can be cited, upon which thousands of observations can be and have been made. All who have ever been saved and all who ever will believe are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, for God's glory alone, according to Scripture alone. Everything points to the Lord Jesus Christ and Him crucified as our sole reason for boasting and the only basis by which any sinner who repents receives forgiveness of sins, is declared righteous, and is eternally secure. God, Philippians 2 tells us, bestowed on Jesus the name that is "above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee would bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of the Father".

Don't let anyone tell you that the Jesus of the Bible isn't necessary or needed for a person to be saved. Stand firm on the gospel of the grace of God in Christ. Preach (in any and every way imaginable to any and every person available) the absolute necessity and sufficiency of Jesus Christ and Him crucified.