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Believing in Jesus Christ and in the One Who sent Him for our salvation is necessary for obtaining that salvation ( cf.

Mark 16: 16 ; John 3: 36 ; 6: 40 ; et al .).

" Since ' without faith it is impossible to please ' and to attain to the fellowship of His sons, therefore without faith no one has ever attained justification, nor will anyone obtain eternal life ` but he who endures to the end ,'" ( Vatican I, Dei Fillius 3 ; cf.

Matthew 10: 22 ; 24: 13 and Hebrews 11: 6 ; Council of Trent Decree on Justification, 8 )