Scripture says that salvation is by hope, how is it possible that we can already be saved? If we’re hoping for something, then that means it is something that we don’t now have. Does it seem that scripture is referring to salvation being a future event when our beloved Messiah returns?
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? (Rom 8:24 KJV)