Cheryl Schatz

Craig,
The only “future” salvation that I know for believers is an extension on the salvation that they already have. For example:

1 Corinthians 3:10–15 (NAS)
10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, like a wise master builder I laid a foundation, and another is building on it. But each man must be careful how he builds on it.
11 For no man can lay a foundation other than the one which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
12 Now if any man builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw,
13 each man’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each man’s work.
14 If any man’s work which he has built on it remains, he will receive a reward.
15 If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.

In this passage it says “he himself will be saved” and that is future tense, but the context shows that the person is already saved as verse 10 and 11 shows that our “building on the foundation” is building on Christ. When a man’s works are burned up, the foundation remains which is Christ and he has at that time the same salvation that he had before his works were tested. There is nothing in this passage about “if” he will be saved, but if he will be rewarded or not. So in context the “future” salvation is the continuation of what one already has (the foundation of Christ). This is not like 1 Timothy 2:15 where there is a situation of “if” she is saved or not and what is necessary to make sure that she will be saved. For the man who stands before God with his works burned up, there is nothing that is to be done to save him. He arrives saved and he stays saved, but his works do not remain for a reward.

How do we compare this to Eve? We don’t. She is either saved or she is not. If she is not saved, nothing that she or we can do will change that. No more “remaining in the faith” will make a difference for her as a dead person.

So is the testing of the works what you were thinking about? If so check out the context and you will see that it is not a future conditional salvation. It is a future continued salvation without rewards (or with rewards for those whose building on the foundation survives).