The gospel of Thomas is much maligned by traditionalists and fundamentalists as either apocryphal or heretical, depending on their viewpoint. The 70th saying in Thomas is this:
Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you. If you do not have that within you, what you do not have within you [will] kill you."
I admit there are a number of ways to intepret this, particularly the second half of the. But I see the first part as a specific call to become who you are supposed to be, to bring forth everything that you are capable of; to know yourself. It's another version of the truth setting you free. Salvation in this context looks like the process of unravelling one's own personal identity, finding out what is there, god bad or indifferent, rather than striving to become something or to emulate some unattainable ideal. And if you don't make this journey into yourself, maybe you just get stuck in either doing nothing, or in striving to emulate ancient heroes.
For me this is a much healthier view of salvation than the judicial and sacrificial one. It consists of finding out who you are, your true reality. You could even argue that it's no more than unwrapping the great gift of life that you have been given and finding out what's in it. This, after all, is not under your control; you awaken to it at a certain point in your life when a lot of it appears to be cast in concrete.
What you do with it afterwards is a different question. And the possibility of change is always there, if you are open to it. Know thyself!