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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.
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