[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."

[kosta50]

That is salvation from the sentence of "it is given unto man once to die and after this the judgment."

You are not saved until you are judged. If you believe, chances are that you will become suffciently merciful and pure in heart by the time you face the judgment that you will be saved when God judges you after death. If you don't believe, chances are that you won't.

God knows who believes as lip service and who believes in ernest and tries honestly to follow Chirst even if one honestly fails.