[kosta50]

What would you add or take away from that?

Not much. One thing comes to mind" dying unto the world and especially oneself. It is a process, a life-long journey of purification, characterized by humility, and selflessness, ever more in harmony with God's will, ever-more Christ-like.

In fact, Orthodoxy defines being "saved" not by proclaiming Christ our Lord and Savior, but how Christ-like we have become following Him at the end of our journey.

[xzins]

John says that whoever believes in Jesus will not perish but have everlasting life. That is salvation from the sentence of "it is given unto man once to die and after this the judgment."

There is also salvation from this evil age and from the flesh.

We would refer to that as sanctification, and it, too, is ours only by grace. It is the "loving God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength."

Wmfights is right to make the connection with theosis. "Christ in us the hope of glory."