I agree with Undecided, but while I am live, being saved mean I am living my life as follower of Christ. And live a meaningful life as I try(strive) to learn more about our God, His Son, and understand his words(try to understand what he is saying to us through his words in the Bible). I don't think we could ever stop to certain point and say now I understand. I believe that's what religions do to us by saying "this is what it means" and expect us to stop learning until they decided what is what. We stop learning like we are done with textbook. I don't think the Bible is like that, I think the Bible is like our survival guide in this life. When we have a relationship of anykind we nurture, we grow in that relationship, we learn all the time about that person we are involve with if we value that person, and we will do everything in our power to save and treasure that relationship. So for being saved mean to me is that I am constantly learning to save the relationship I have with God, His Son, and what He has done for us. The word of God is alive so it is constantly talking to me if I am listening. I am listening and learning everyday. So I feel like I am being saved as long as I am listening and learning. So I don't feel like it has to be one time deal experiece but I feel as I live according to His way. I will still feel the pain of living in this messed up world but I have certain amount of peace and assurance from this relationship with God and His Son. All the feelings of being saved by being jw was only the man made religious accomplishment not a real thing. The real thing is my own that I am accomplishing as I learn.
The Freedom of Christ: The Role of the Spirit
Those who acknowledge Jesus as having gained this victory on their behalf and who receive his Spirit into their lives are liberated from those things by which they were inexorably gripped beforehand. They are free from the compulsion to sin and from the tendency to rely on their own moral and religious achievements. They are free from the obligation to regulate their lives by reference to an instinctive or external moral code. They are free from the bonds that death irrevocably puts around them(Rom 8:38-39; Gal 4:8-11). Experience of the Spirit has the reverse effect. Instead of blinding and tyrannizing them, it has, since its gift is truth and its power love, released them and for the first time granted them freedom to choose a way of life for themselves(Rom 5:5; 1 Cor 2:10-11). This does not mean that they are altogether released from the pull of the old way of life. Far from it. In a frankly autobiographical passage Paul acknowledges:
I am a divided being. In my innermost self, the thinking and reasoning part of me, I wholeheartedly endorse God's principles. but I am also awaare of a fifferent principle within me. This is in continual conflict with both my conscious mind and conscience, and makes me an wnwilling proisoner to the power of sin which has such a grip on my personality. It is an agonizing situation to in -to be torn by a conflict from which there is (as yet) no solution. (Rom 7:21ff.)
According to Paul it is only in the resurrection at the Last Day that the final resolution of the conflict between the mind and the conscience will take place. In the meantime one must live in the tension between them, conscious of the fact that in Christ the issue has already been decided and that throught the Spirit this can now in part be experienced (Rom 7:25b-9:11)
