What's with all this once saved, always saved business??!!
If I am in the deep end of a pool, struggling to stay afloat,
and the lifeguard intervenes; I have been saved. Correct??

If later in the day, I am again found struggling in the deep end of a pool,
and the lifeguard intervenes again, saving me.

I have been saved, twice.

Using this observation in a spiritual tone,
I deny the "Once Saved, Always Saved" doctrine.

Yet the idea of this illustration is to create a point. Saving as a word describes
a singular event that is happening in the present. Being saved describes a
singular event that happened in the past. Salvation is a unique word in that it
can convey the idea of continuing and/or future benefits from having been
rescued or delivered. So maybe part of the problem is that as a Western people
we have given singular words the opportunity to mean something that really could
be better stated with another word or phrase.

So rather than saying I am saved or they are not saved, would we be better to say that we are in Christ, or that someone is not in Christ?