Does a person have to believe Jesus is God to be saved? Can a person believe in Jesus as the Son of God but not as God and still be saved? I am not sure on what is the answer to these questions. Please support your position with Scripture. Thank you.
It depends on what you mean by "Salvation." It is an OT word that applied when God's people were delivered from attacks by their enemies. "Eternal Salvation" has to do with inheriting Eternal Life. The "Saved Life" lived in the present is being Born Again.
I personally believe there will be lots of people inheriting Eternal Life who don't have the Born Again life now, and will not have it until the Kingdom comes. These are people who for one reason or another didn't receive the Gospel because they just didn't hear it sufficient to know what they want on the inside.
The focus, today, is on preaching the Gospel so that people today can have the Born Again life, and so produce fruit for God. One cannot produce fruit for God apart from the Born Again life.
We must have more than the natural life, which lives for itself, whether doing good or evil. We must have the spiritual life of Christ, which was just as true in the OT era as in the NT era.
Only today, we have, with our spiritual lives, Eternal Life, because Christ has purchased that for all those who have chosen the spiritual life and for all those who would have chosen it, had they received the Gospel sufficient for them to do so.
There are so many points here that I would have to provide Scriptures for every one. I can do that if you're interested after reading this? Romans 2 talks about those who by their conscience prove that they can live as if wanting Eternal Life simply by obeying their conscience. That is, they can be saved even if they have not yet received Eternal Life.
Those who have been Born Again can say they have already received Eternal Life, along with being able to bear good fruit for God. Those not yet saved do not yet have Eternal Life and cannot bear good fruit for God. But they can do good and prove by their conscience that they can be saved, ie receive Eternal Life, in the future.