 Isn't that the perfect word? I mean if someone was in a burning building and a courageous firefighter rushed in and brought them out. If you read about it later it would probably say a person was saved. If someone was drowning out in the ocean caught in a riptide and a lifeguard swam out to save them. That is the word we use. They saved them. And this is what God does. He saves us. He saves us from what? He saves us for starters from future judgment.