"SAVED"?

 

“SAVED”?

John 3:16-17 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.G4982 

 

  What are the most popular religious answers to the question “What does saved mean to you?”

  I don’t know how to answer the “most” part of the question. I will however tell what response I’ve heard often in my recent 58 years; the same answers I gave before I began studies that include resources like Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Dictionaries.

  My novice answer was a concise “Going to heaven. Not going to hell.”

  After study, my answer became and remains the Greek truth: G4982; σώζω; sōzō

sode'-zo. From a primary word σῶς sōs̄ (contraction for the obsolete σάος saos, “safe”); to save, that is, deliver or protect (literally or figuratively): - heal, preserve, save (self), do well, be (make) whole.

Total KJV occurrences: 110

  Trusting Jesus we are not only delivered from damnation and heaven bound. We are here and now well preserved and made whole! Knowing and accepting this, if prior ignorant of, is renewal extraordinary: … He has made you alive, who were once dead in trespasses and sins, in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience; among whom we also had our way of life in times past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love with which He loved us (even when we were dead in sins [Rom.5:8]) has made us alive together with Christ … (MKJV Ephesians chapter 2)

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