Christ is said to have saved us. What does being saved mean?

1 min readUpdated 12 October 2022

A man is saved who is free forever from the prospect of going to the eternal misery of hell. The soul that is saved has necessarily been separated from this earthly life of probation, and has gone either to purgatory for a time, or immediately to the eternal happiness of heaven.

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