that verse is saying that belief in the doctrine of Christ's Deity is essential for salvation.
John 8:24 is not saying that belief in Christ’s deity is essential for salvation.
That’s what
you are saying.
What did the Father reveal to Peter?
That Jesus was the Christ.
Matthew 16:15-17 KJV
...whom say ye that I am? [16] And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. [17] And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee,
but my Father which is in heaven.
Why didn’t the Father reveal to Peter that Jesus was God himself? Because this has nothing to do with salvation, that’s why (or, that it is even something to be concerned with). And also, no where else in scripture is belief in Jesus’s deity mentioned as a requirement for salvation.
The only thing that condemns one in regards to the person of Christ in scripture is denying that Jesus is the Christ:
1 John 2:22 KJV
[22] Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.
Why do you insist on loading men with burdens not prescribed in the Bible?