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Also, just pondering this over dinner,
what's this faith that is enough? just believing that Jesus is Christ? well that qualifies demons too. Is it just some abstract trust or love for God? is all it takes for salvation that one simply "have faith" in Christ with no change of behavior ACTUALLY being necessary? Then why wouldn't EVERYONE believe in God? is the only thing stopping them soyance, lack of evidence or their own stupidity? is the struggle of good and evil merely an intellectual one? surely not! But that's what's implied by your idea of salvation.

Let's have a thought experiment. Would a person that "accepts Christ" but goes on murdering be saved? A person that has faith but then goes on killing raping and kills themselves? Surely not. What about a person that kills but repents and turns back to God? surely. So then we confirm that salvation is fleeing. It can be lost and recovered. As we say in orthodoxy "I have been saved, I am being saved and I am yet to be saved". It's not just a point in time where you "accept Christ" of find "faith". It's an ongoing struggle that doesn't resolve at a single point in time.