Do you have to believe that Jesus is the 2nd Person to be saved?

Actually, that's a perfect example. Your children don't know anything about their parent other than there's comfort in their care. They don't need to know about genetics, legal guardianship, or anything else. They don't need to know what makes a parent a parent or a child a child. They just put blind faith in their parents. It's likewise okay for someone to put blind faith in Christ and accept salvation. Once they do that, they can get into learning about what constitutes the trinity, godhead, messianic nature of Christ, and so on and so on.

 

Your back to square one where the discussion began. Do we need to go through everything again.
"We only need to know that he is God." That is a false statement.
To the Muslim Allah is God.
To the Buddha, his god is Buddha.
To the J.W. Jehovah is God, but Christ is only an angel.
To the Mormon Christ is a created being.

No, we need to know more than he is God.

 

I have already explained using 1Cor.15:1-4 that much more is need than that.

 

Rather you have isolated one verse of Scripture and have based your theology on it which has resulted in a warped view of soteriology.

What else did Jesus say? What else does the Bible say about salvation?

In 1Cor.15:1-4, Paul said, "I declare unto you the gospel...by the which you are saved."
How can you ignore such a straight forward statement--that you need the gospel to be saved, not simply to believe that Christ is God.

Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
--We are justified by faith. Another important part of salvation.

Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
--One of the clearest passages on salvation there is:
We are saved by grace (the grace of God) through faith. Through faith in what? Through faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ, in his atoning work on the cross. It is not of works. It is entirely by faith. It is by the grace provided by Christ, a gift that we don't deserve, but Christ provided it anyway even though we are wicked sinners undeserving of this precious gift of eternal life. There is more to it than just believing that Christ is God.

Jesus said to Nicodemus: "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus was not born of God. I think that Nicodemus believed that Christ was the Messiah, (God), but that didn't make him saved. He had to be born again. But what did that mean. Jesus launches into a discourse of what it means to be born again. Do you know what it means to be born again? If you do not perhaps you are not saved. It is the only way to heaven. One must be born again or there is no way to heaven. It is not simply believing that Jesus is God.

Much more is needed than simply believing that Christ is God.

To hang all your theology on just one verse of Scripture results in a warped view of God and Christ.

 

No, I'm saying that being completely devoid of ignornace is not a salvific prerequisite.

No, there's only one boat. A drowning person knows what the boat is when he sees it. He doesn't need to have an understanding of the user's manual before getting in.

 

Then what meaning could it possibly have?

John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

God the Father gave God the Son. The first person of the Godhead sacrificing the second--a father/son relationship. There is no other way it can be taken.

 

It is an OT passage, a prophecy about the coming of Christ.

 

Assigned numbers? Then you subscribe to the Catholic version of the Nician Creed? <G>