What does Les teach about how a person is saved?
Salvation is by faith plus nothing—no human energy or merit contributes to it. A person is not saved by walking in the flesh or by walking in the Spirit; rather, entry into Christ Jesus is by faith alone. Human effort cannot accomplish what God requires.
Les teaches that salvation is faith plus nothing—no human energy and no human merit. He stresses that if being in Christ Jesus depended on walking not after the flesh but after the Spirit, then salvation would be earned by behavior, contradicting the truth that those in Christ have no condemnation. The phrase 'who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit' does not belong in verse 1 but in verse 4. Les explains that adding that condition to verse 1 would make him a liar, because the earliest manuscripts and Bible scholars agree it is an error.