That is ANOTHER ONE of your
FALSE ASSUMPTIONS, yet again. You say that all you have to do is Believe JESUS DIED FOR THE SINS OF MAN, WAS BURIED, and Rose Again on the Third Day. If You Mean Intellectually acknowledge that is TRUE, even the DEMONS BELIEVE That Much. If you mean we must Acknowledge WHO HE IS, the DEMONS BELIEVE THAT TOO:
Mark 5:6-9 (NRSV)
6 When he saw Jesus from a distance,
he ran and bowed down before him;
7 and he shouted
at the top of his voice,
"What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me."
8 For he had said to him,
"Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!"
9 Then Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" He replied, "My name is Legion; for we are many."
By your definition, do you think those DEMONS were saved ? ? ? I think not, so what were they LACKING ? ? ?
They were LACKING
belief in their HEART where the HUMAN SPIRIT IS.
Romans 10:8-10 (NASB)
8 But what does it say? "THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART"—
that is, the word of faith which we are preaching,
9
that if you confess {Not just profess an intellectual fact as truth,} with your mouth Jesus as Lord {You have to have mourned over your deep conviction of utter Sinfulness, then surrendered to HIM as LORD of your life, out of pure Agape LOVE, first for it to be a true CONFESSION.} , and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
10
for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness,
and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
1 Thessalonians 1:5 (NASB)
5 for our gospel did not come to you in word only, but also in power and in the Holy Spirit and with full conviction; just as you know what kind of men we proved to be among you for your sake.
John 10:1 (ESV)
1 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber.
Only You can answer that, "DID YOU COME IN ANOTHER WAY ? ? ?"