Believing in Jesus entails not only intellectual assent to the teachings of Scripture: that He was born of a virgin: that He performed signs and miracles pointing to His Lordship over sin and death; that He was sinless, yet went to a cross to bear the punishment of death each of us deserves for our sin; that He physically rose from the dead and still lives, God the Son; that by God’s grace through our faith in Him, Christians are saved from sin and death.