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The cultist would say that means that you don't have salvation yet, and that's
because after believing, you have to earn it by works. But that interpretation
belies the rest of Paul's writings. So what does the verse mean?
In one sense, our salvation is present, and in another sense, it is in the future.
Romans 5:8-9 "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while
we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, being now
[present tense] justified by his blood, we shall [future tense] be saved from
wrath through him."
1 Thessalonians 1:10b "...Jesus...delivered us [past tense] from the wrath
to come [in the future]."
We are "saved" now in the sense that we are now promised salvation from
the penalty of sin (hell) which we would get after the death of our body (i.e.
in the future) if we didn't have Christ's atonement which "we have now
received" (Romans 5:11).
Another possible interpretation of Romans 13:11 is that it is referring to the
salvation of our BODIES, which will happen at the Pre-Trib rapture when
our bodies are changed.
Philippians 3:20-21 "For our conversation is in
heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus
Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like
unto his glorious body..."
1 Corinthians 15:49 "And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we
shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the
kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all
be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the
trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we
shall be changed.