I see people all around me saying that they have been saved. It seems everyone has a different meaning of what

Question

it means to be saved. How come people dispute each other in what it means to be saved? I know people who are not Christian, and have never been saved as such, but lead a good, long and healthy and prosperous life, without even knowing what it means to be saved. These people started out with very little, but today they are well respected, relatively wealthy, charity-bound, and not really materialistic people even though they have money (I guess how they use their money is what matters). They definately have committed sins (depends on your idea of sin I suppose), yet they die happily and with dignity. Yet they have never heard of what it means to be saved. So I wonder, really, what it means to be saved and why it seems to apply to some and not to others (I am talking of Christians and non-Christians). Pls dont mistake my questions, I ask to understand only.

Answer 1

From a Christian perspective, getting saved means that you have accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior and asked to be forgiven for your sins. You are then what is termed "born again" and start leading a life as a follower of Christ.

Answer 2

Being "saved" is talking solely about salvation. Some denominations don't use the term, others do. The whole idea is that once a person has accepted Jesus Christ as their Lord and personal Savior that they have achieved salvation or been "saved". This is something that only people who believe that Christ died upon the cross and claimed victory over death on the third day receive. People who live good lives and die with dignity and happiness doesn't mean they have been saved. It means they've lived a "good life" according to humans. Salvation is a heavenly, spiritual implication, not an earthly, materialistic one.

Answer 3

The bibical wording for being saved translates -- To be made whole -- What does each person need to be made whole. A blending of the physical and the spiritual. I think some people are born more balanced than others, maybe it is due to past life knowledge if that exists or maybe it is just the way God created them.

Answer 4

In the christian religion, in the bible, to be saved means to confess your sins and accept Jesus Christ as your savior. Through the eyes of christians, unless a person has specifically done this, then they are not saved.

Answer 5

"Getting saved" has nothing to do with gaining worldly wealth. Salvation comes from God through His Son Jesus Christ to those that "liveth and believeth in Him that died for us".
He that is faithful to the end, the same shall be saved.

John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth and the life. No man cometh unto the Father, but by Me.

We are saved by grace, not of works lest any man should boast.

Answer 6

THE REAL YOU is invisible. The Real You is like an angel, only you are an invisible Human Spirit. Adam messed himself up(the real Adam(a Spiritual Being, invisible) and passed that messed up Spirit to every-body else. If GOD were to allow HIS power to flow through a Human Being with a messed up Spirit, they would cease to exist. That's why you got to get Born-Again (RECREATED SPIRITUALLY), so you can withstand the POWER of GOD, when you go to HEAVEN.. ANYBODY can be nice, all you have to do is take your FREE-WILL and CHOSE to be nice. I believe that Hitler was nice to some people.
Adam changed God's when he disobeyed(High Treason) getting Born-Again hooks you back-up to the CREATOR again, Spiritually. You are a SPIRIT, You live in a BODY and You have a SOUL(a Spiritual Super-computer, works with the Brain, it is your second mind) you, a Spirit, is your first mind.

Answer 7

Maybe you should be asking what they need to be saved from. Since I was raised Christian, I know what it means to be saved but I dispute the notion that it's even necessary.

Answer 8

Yes! people say things like I was saved on 10 May1980 and if I commit murder now I am going straight to heaven because I am saved, does not make sense to me .

Answer 9

Have you ever wondered about the reason of our existence? Have you ever wondered why we die, and where we go after death? What will happen to us in the end? Have you ever asked yourself why God made the earth and all that is in it under man’s dominion? Why were the night and the day, and the sun and the moon created? What are we supposed to do during our lifetime? Were we created just to eat, drink, and enjoy ourselves before we die? As one poet put it:
“I do not know whence I have come.
I saw my feet walking on the road.
As they please I go and stop.
What am I doing here?
How did the road find me?
I do not know! I do not know! I do not know! ”

God has emphasized in many verses of the Qur’an that He did not create us without purpose. He said: “What! Do you think that I created you simply in jest? And that you would not be returned to Me?” (23:115) He also said: “What! Does man think that he will be left to roam at his will?” (75:36) In addition, He said: “Do people think that they will be left to say: “We believe,” and they will not be held accountable?” (29:2)
Indeed, God Has created human beings for a purpose and with a purpose: TO WORSHIP HIM ALONE (Monotheism). He said: “I have not created the Jinn and humankind except only to worship Me. I don't require provision or feeding from them. Surely Allah is the All-provider, the Possessor of all strength, the Firm.” (51:56-58) In fact, all prophets told their people to worship God alone (Monotheism) and shun worshipping His creation (Paganism). God said: “I assuredly sent among every people a messenger with the command: Worship Allah and avoid worshipping false gods.” (16:36)
Prophet Abraham, for example, believed in One God, who had no partner. Anyone who holds a different understanding of God than this has contradicted the religion of Abraham and follows falsehood. God says in the Qur’an: “Those who reject the religion of Abraham make fools of themselves.” (2:130)
Prophet Jesus was reported in the Gospels to have said: “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only’.” (Luke 4:8)
Prophet Jacob also said (in the Qur'an) to his people: “Indeed, those which you worship besides Allah are only names that you and your forefathers have established, for which Allah has sent down no authority. The command belongs only to Allah. He has commanded that you worship none but Him. That is the right religion, but most people do not understand.” (12:40)
Read more about the TRUE BELIEVE which supported by the Miracle Holy Quran :
http://www.islam-guide.com/islam-guide.pdf

http://www.harunyahya.com

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Real happiness and peace can be ONLY found in submitting to the commands of the Creator and the Sustainer of this world. God has said in the Qur’an: (Truly, in remembering God do hearts find rest.)
(Qur’an, 13:28)

On the other hand, the one who turns away from the Qur’an will have a life of hardship in this world. God has said:
(But whoever turns away from the Qur’an, he will have a hard life, and We will raise him up blind on the Day of Judgment.) (Qur’an, 20:124)
This may explain why some people commit suicide while they enjoy the material comfort money can buy. For example, look at Cat Stevens (now Yusuf Islam), formerly a famous pop singer who used to earn sometimes more than $150,000 a night. After he converted to Islam, he found true happiness and peace, which he had not found in material success.
To read the stories of people who have converted to Islam, please visit

http://www.islam-guide.com/stories

At this web page, you can read the thoughts and feelings of these people, who are from different countries and have different backgrounds and levels of education.
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Answer 10

Well I am a christian and to me being saved means realizing and beliving that Jesus died on the cross for our sins so that we can go to heaven. It is aplogozing to him for your sins and asking for forgiveness. To me it is like to talking to your parents who get upset when you screw up but when you come to them for help they always help. No matter what it is you did this time. They always love you and always forgive you.