It's the faithful part. We must do our part and remain faithful. That's the part you're missing. It's not automatic and it is a choice WE can make like any other choice. If we choose to deny Christ that's our choice whether it's done prior to or after initial salvation. If it were not possible to backslide and deny Christ, why the warnings in the bible? If it were not possible to lose your salvation why warn?
Have to respectfully disagree. If someone who is truly saved can deny Christ, then the verses I posted simply and without question
cannot be true or correct. So, is that what you think - that they're somehow wrong? It can't be that both are right: being able to deny Christ and yet at the same time, being kept by God unto salvation - each the antitheists of the other.
For those chosen, being kept is automatic - it is automatic because it is of God, not of themselves. God uses faith, through which He manifests His power in keeping someone "unto salvation". But the faith in view is faith given by God, not faith produced by the intellect of man'.
Those truly saved would never deny Christ - they would never do so because they know that He alone is the Saviour and who gave them eternal salvation. How/why do those saved not deny Christ? Because of the following verse
[Phl 2:13 KJV] 13 For it is
God which worketh in you both to will and to do of [his] good pleasure.
it is true, however, that there are those who do fall away and deny Christ, but they were never of the saved, nor had ever been given true faith to begin with:
[Luk 8:13 KJV] 13 They on the rock [are they], which, when they hear, receive the word with joy; and these have no root,
which for a while believe, and in time of temptation fall away.
The "warnings" as you call them, to the elect serve as edification, but to the non-elect warnings of judgment. Edification is how those saved learn Christian doctrine. Having first been saved, and believing their salvation safe, they follow the doctrine because they realize that it is right, and therefore, from the heart, they desire to do so, but not because they are in fear of losing salvation. Their actions, while not always perfect, come from salvation, but they are never to salvation. The unsaved on the other hand, try to satisfy them to leverage their actions into salvation, or, if they believe themselves saved, unto keeping salvation. This then indicates that their belief is based upon works and in law, but not in grace.
[2Co 2:15-16 KJV]
15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:
16
To the one [we are] the
savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who [is] sufficient for these things?