For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever should believe on Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
For by Grace are you saved, it is a gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast.
My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father’s hand.
It is repeated over and over and over.
In regards to the beliefs I was referring to: I believe I am asking forgiveness for all sins I have committed to retain my salvation.
I believe I am going to the right church, enough times a week. I am tithing enough, I am ... well you name it.
The only route to salvation is to accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour.
You cannot earn salvation with enough good works, and you certainly cannot “keep” salvation with enough good works, because we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. There is none righteous, no, not one.
>>In regards to the beliefs I was referring to: I believe I am asking forgiveness for all sins I have committed to retain my salvation....”
Or “I believe I have accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Saviour.”
There’s no real difference here. You ‘believe’ you’ve done what you need to achieve your salvation. You’re choosing to believe can be as much as work as anything else.
And you could be as wrong; what you believe now may not be what you believe later. You do not know and cannot presume to know the future. Only God can.
You chose Christ and you can choose not Christ in the future:
“For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning. For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.” - 2 Peter 2:20-21