required threshhold of faith required for Christians to be saved is not clear

Thank you for good questions, and thank you for good manners. I understand your doubts and skepticism about being saved and knowing you are saved due to the many ways salvation is explained and the seeming differences in the many ways the Bible says we can be saved. There is a common denominator if all of these examples. There is a uniting factor which explains all of the differences in how to be saved. If I can persuade you to accept the common denominator and the uniting factor, I may or may not win this debate but I will win a convert to salvation for the Lord's glory. Salvation is explained in many ways in the Bible because it is an act of God, and it is difficult if not impossible to explain His salvation in one framework of words that will be understood by all people. No matter how salvation is explained, most people will not get it because they are not ready to admit that they have nothing good to offer God in or of themselves as a reason why they should be spared from the fire of Hell. The common denominator and the uniting factor in the many ways the Bible explains salvation is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself. The part you seem to be leaving out of your questionings is how to receive Him as your Saviour to be saved.It does seem that you are honestly seeking answers from God and not trying to harden your heart against Him to excuse any bad behaviour you might enjoy or fall into. God promises, in Jeremiah 29:13, "And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart." Again, I want to commend you for asking honest questions and seeking honest answers.Receiving Jesus Christ as the Saviour is how a person is saved. John 1:12 and 13 puts it this way: "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." Here is an explanation of the new birth which occurs when we believe on Jesus and receive Him as our Saviour. He, by His Holy Spirit, comes in to us as He promises He will do if we open the door to Him when we hear Him knocking. Revelation 3:20, in Jesus' own words, explains it this way: "Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me." We can take God at His Word and be born again as new creations in Christ , children of God and secure in knowing our Father is God. To be born again, to be saved, is an act of God which God performs when we come into agreement with God whole heartedly believing on His Son and trusting God to save us. It's hard to explain what God does, but He promises to do it and He does it, and it's wonderful to know God as Father through Jesus Christ the Son, being indwelt by Him in His Holy Spirit.Jesus explained it this way in John chapter 3: Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.Now, to specifically address your opening statements and questions in the preceding argument:what if someone just acknowledges they are a sinner and he is their savior? you like to talk a lot about hell fire.or what if they turned over a new leaf ie born again and rely on him?or what if they say he is lord of their life, master of their life, and rely on him?Jesus is the Saviour, but acknowledging that you are a sinner and acknowledging that Jesus is your Saviour is what you do. You are not saved until God saves you. You are not saved until you are born again. You are not born again until you receive Jesus Christ. "Receiving Him" is the part you are leaving out in all of your questions and observations. I'm sad thinking how many poor answers and explanations you have heard from people who should be better able to explain their faith and their salvation.If you turn over a new leaf, that does not make you born again. You can turn a leaf over a hundred times, and then you are only an experienced leaf turner who is the same person you always were. You can turn over a hundred new leaves, it's still the same old you who is turning the leaves. Turning over a new leaf does not make you a new person. You were conceived by your parents to be the person you are. A new you must be conceived by God to be born again, and God makes that happen when you realize you are lost and have nothing to offer God in or of yourself for your salvation, and you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ in His resurrection, and receive Him. If you say He is lord of your life, and master of your life, and you rely on Him, that is all you. He is Lord of all if you say He is Lord or not. He is master of your life if you acknowledge Him as your master or not. He is the master of everything. He rules against sin as the Master of Creation and all creatures. You rely on Him if you say you do not or if you say you do. It is by Him that all things consist. Saying these things is only saying these things. To say these things does not make you a new creation. You have to be born again to be a new creation. 2 Cor. 5:17 puts it this way: Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.You have to be born again to be saved from the fire of Hell. I talk a lot about Hell fire because many people today fail to see that Justice from God demands execution of sinners forever in the fire of Hell where their rebellion will be separated from His creation and never disrupt His creation again. If people really understood where they are going if they are not saved, they would see their need to be saved and the impossibility of saving themselves or earning salvation and they would receive Jesus Christ the Lord, the Creator who is our Saviour, and be born again and saved from the fire of Hell.