Different people have different beliefs of what it means to be saved. What does being saved mean to you?

Question

Give a description of what and how you will change. I will be asking a 2nd part to this question....thank you to all who answers.

Answer 1

Waking up from the fairy tale and becoming an atheist.

Answer 2

It means that someone is a member of a church that requires you to believe in their way to be a member. So all belief means to me is that it indicates a membership in a particular group. So the only change that occurs is becoming a member.

The bit about saving souls is just nonsense. There are no souls and they don't need to be saved. If people feel some change it is purely emotions that they create in theirselves because they expect to feel something.

Answer 3

Nothing. Only Christians have to say they are "saved". I follow my own faith and beliefs. I'm Wiccan and see no need to convert or try and "save" others. In today's society anyone who is interested in any religion, can go through the Internet and find out about those beliefs. I do not believe in a right or wrong religion, only in an individual following their own path. The only rule I would say is not to cause harm to others, because that would take their own choices away from them.

Answer 4

Having faith in a high power to keep my soul alive.
Also being saved is a freedom of choice to at least
try to live an acceptable life.
Yes we will make errors, history shows that however we as humans can look at our lives and make changes.
Not bellyache like brianna.angel or whatever did.

She ain't no angel but uses a term inherently close to God.
Interesting rambling.

Answer 5

As I write this I've been a non-Christian for about two and a half years. In that time I've read and written much about the flaws and fallacies of Christianity.

Christianity makes a mockery of God. At the same time that Christians claim to worship God as an omnipotent, omnipresent, omnibenevolent being, they make him out to be incompetent bumbler. Or worse. Simple forgiveness is beyond his capacities. God must "sacrifice himself to himself to change a rule he made himself!"

This is not only an absurdity, it is an essential absurdity. It is present in almost almost all forms of Christianity, and one can scarcely remove it and remain a Christian in anything but name. By definition, all Christians worship Christ - in some form - and most worship him as a saviour.

But what, exactly, is he saving us from? Though it varies from church to church, no matter what they call it, it's God himself. A hell created by God, a world fallen as a result of God's negligence, a separation from God imposed... by God.

"It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being."
- Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith

Christianity certainly isn't the first religion to promote appeasement of its gods, and if it were merely another supernatural protection racket, it would be bad enough. Unfortunately, it doesn't stop there. Christians elevate appeasement to the realm of "personal relationship", transforming their religion into a true monstrosity.

This is the type of "relationship" that abused wives have with their husbands, that brainwashed hostages have with their captors. It is known in clinical circles as Stockholm Syndrome. Should it come as any surprise that the cries of the church, "The Bride of Christ" sound much like the cries of an abused wife attempting to protect her husband?

"He must beat me."
"I deserve it."
"He has no choice."
"It's for my own good."

These excuses don't work for human abusers, and they work even less well for God. For if God is omnipotent, he must have a choice. And if we are flawed, we are only flawed because that is the way he made us. (No excuses that we ruined his perfect creation. A truly perfect creation does not self-destruct.)

If the Christian God does exist - and I see no reason to believe that he does - he's not worthy of the name.

And that is the ultimate absurdity of Christianity.

Answer 6

Being saved to me means that I have been delivered from the torment of the life I used to have and who I was.My life had no meaning and I was suicidal,that was over 20 yrs ago and I have a full life now and very much enjoy being alive.

Answer 7

Being saved means in the long term, all the garbage one goes though won't matter because God has set matters straight.
Isaiah 1:18
Micah 4:3

Answer 8

Being saved to mean, means to surrender. Surrender to nature. Surrender to a world with no fixed rules of ethics, but to realize just how much interpretation is imposed by humans, onto humans.

Being saved to me, means to be free - free to question, free to doubt, free to think, and swish things around in my head. Being saved to me, means acknowledgement that I don't know - and neither do you.

Being saved to me, simply, means a constant state of surrendering to flux.

Answer 9

Jesus died on the cross to saved us from sin I be bapstist wich meams on the supper Jesus and the discuplies broke bread together the bread is his body and the wine is his blood and to be saved means you do away things you once did.

Answer 10

John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

The word "again" (anothen) in Greek means "from above", so born from above.

John 3:4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? John 3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

We all are born of the flesh and water, the womb. You must be born from above or the Spirit. God's Word is His Spirit. I pray that helps you. Sow to your spirit by studying His Word which is God's Spirit.

KEEP MY WORDS
John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.

NOTICE; WE will come, make OUR abode with him.

Answer 11

being saved means to me that i will be forgiven for the sins iv commited on earth and being able to stand on my two feet and carry on the mission God has given.

Change ... well, i would be more positive in viewing life.. which im doing right now,