Victory, you make it sound as if a believer no longer has the freewill to deny Christ once he has been saved...
Then he is not truly dead; only wounded.
but then maybe that's what you actually believe. Is it? I didn't know that you were Calvinist. If you are, forgive me.
Not denying the power of the cross. To the weak, He is their strength and power. You really think God would abandon children born of the Spiritual womb from above? Man doesn’t control one being born from above, God does and He gives Life to whom He wills. To say one loses something that has to be kept of man is to say it is within man’s control and not God’s. To say man keeps it is to set a house on shifting sand and watch as it falls. Romans 8:33-39
[33] Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. [34] Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. [35] Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? [36] As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. [37] Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. [38] For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, [39] Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
So tell me why you circle around time and again to saying man plus God does it? It is a new name given which is His. The flesh was crucified...that is the model.