The bible is the revealed and written Will of God, and it may make more sense starting toward the back of the book.
1 John 4:10
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Romans 10:9
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
1 Timothy 2:5
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;