The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me (Galatians 2:2, NIV).You’ll often hear people saying, “When I got saved…” Or you might hear other people say, “Jesus will save me…”Which one is correct? And when others say that Jesus will save them, they might be referring to the end of the world.Both are true, but they don’t reflect the core of the Bible’s teaching about when salvation happened.The Bible teaches that the entire human race was saved in potentiality at the Cross (John 1:29; John 3:16; Rom 5:18; 2 Cor 5:19; 1 Tim 4:10; Hebrews 2:9; 1 John 2:2).That may be difficult to understand, so I’ll explain what those words “in potentiality” really mean.At the Cross, Jesus created, through his own blood, a full and perfect salvation available for all who believe. In that way, you can rightly say that you were saved in the first century when Jesus died and rose again.However, although a perfect salvation has been prepared for you, you only step into it when you accept the gift by faith.…