 Additionally , Cobb 's theology has argued against the idea of salvation as a singular , binary event in which one is either saved or not saved for all time . Rather than seeing one 's time in the world as a test of one 's morality in order to enter a heavenly realm , Cobb sees salvation as the continual striving to transform and perfect our experience in this world . Cobb 's idea of salvation focuses less on moral categories and more on aesthetic categories — such as a preference for intense experience over dull experience , or beauty rather than ugliness . Cobb writes : 
