So your answer is yes AND no???
Will you at least agree that no one is saved without faith?
My answer was yes.
We can agree we are saved by grace and grace alone.
Even faith is a gift of grace, grace precedes faith.
We are spiritually dead in Adam and without grace no one would believe in Jesus.
God may decide to save some American Indians living in the year 500ad and obviously could not believe that Jesus is the Christ since no one was there to preach to them. In that case, the Holy Spirit would have baptized them into Christ and faith would have been totally absent.