The Apostles’ Creed: The Churchنموونە

One Savior: Acts 4:12

Scripture clearly teaches that Jesus Christ is the only Savior available to humanity. He is the only one who has ever had the power to save us, and the only one who ever will. As Peter insisted in Acts 4:12:

Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved (Acts 4:12).

Jesus Christ has always been the only Savior available to human beings. Our Lord Himself proclaimed this truth in John 14:6 when He spoke these words:

I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me (John 14:6).

Why is Jesus the only one who can save us? Well, the Savior must be perfect man as well as perfect God, and Jesus had to be a perfect man in order to stand in our place, in order to be our sacrifice, in order to be our substitute. And Jesus is the only one who could fulfill that role. And, of course, this is prepared for over redemptive history when God appointed the Lion of David … to be the Messiah of God, to be the Anointed One. And Jesus is the great King to come after David, and Jesus holds this office, and so the whole Old Testament prepares us for the coming of Jesus. So, Jesus is the only one who meets the criteria for saving his people completely from sin. – Dr. John Frame

Jesus is the Savior of Presbyterians, and Baptists, and Anglicans, and Methodists, and Lutherans, and Roman Catholics, and Eastern Orthodox, and those in every other denomination of the visible church. 

There is only one invisible church because everyone who is saved is united to the same Christ, the same Savior. He is the source of our unity. And because He Himself is undivided, so are we.