"What is Jesus saving people from? Traditionally in evangelicalism, Jesus is saving us from what he’s going to do to us if we don’t let him save us.

That is, Jesus is sparing us eternal damnation. So when you deconstruct the idea of eternal hell, and realize it is neither logical nor scriptural, what is Jesus saving people from?

The term “salvation” actually means to be healed and made whole. It is to be restored to divine image bearers, which means to be restored to our true humanity. True humanity can be best described as simply having the fruit of the Spirit, love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control.

What Jesus is doing as Savior is corporately reconciling the world (setting the captive free, liberating the oppressed, binding up the broken hearted) by individually restoring us back to our true humanity. This is plenty enough to need saved without an afterlife threat. The world needs reconciled."

Jacob M. Wright.