What does it mean to be saved? And saved from what?

“Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.” To be saved is an acknowledgement of Jesus having died for your sins and being raised from the dead for your justification. Justice is in need of being satisfied because of the sin of mankind. We are born into sin and raised in iniquity. Unless you receive Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of your life, you will be lost to eternal damnation. In other words, someone had to pay for all the wrong doings of mankind from the beginning of life until the end of the world. Without receiving Jesus as Lord and Savior of your life, you will have to pay for all of your wrong doings (sin), yourself. To die and go to hell is forever. It would take forever to pay the price of our sins. God is love, but He is a God of justice in the end. Free will is a serious thing. Choose life my friend, because death is without Jesus is an everlasting punishment that never ends.