One can speak of loss and salvation in purely physical senses, but this is not what is meant in religious contexts. A drowning man who is saved from death is not saved religiously speaking. He is saved physically; his ordinary mundane life is preserved so that he can go back to doing what he was doing before. His being rescued may work a moral or spiritual transformation in him, temporary or permanent, but then again it might not. Back on terra firm, he might just go back to eating, drinking, copulating, and piling up
