Oxymoron...not Scriptural.
Salvation and Quickening is A GIFT to Those who Confess HEARTFUL Belief.
THE PROCESS...
For a Beginner...is HEARING, receiving Enlightenment...(believing, wondering, doubting, denying, wavering).
He who continues HEARING, continues receiving measures of FAITH, ( A gift from God...FOR HEARING ).
A man who REJECTS and STOPS HEARING has fallen from faith.
He who continues HEARING, is being prepared to CONFESS heartful belief...
And he who DOES Confess heartful belief, BECOMES FORGIVEN,
BECOMES soul SAVED,
BECOMES spirit QUICKENED.
Converted...
PERIOD....DONE DEAL...once and forever.
THE NEXT PROCESS for such a Converted man....WHICH IS LIFE LONG...
IS that MAN....HIS JOB....
IS TO MAKE HIS "carnal minds thoughts"...
SUBSERVANT TO "his NEW spirits thoughts".
A man "KEEPING" his Salvation the Lord has Gifted him...
AND
A man "KEEPING" his Born Again spirit the Lord has Gifted him...
IS KEPT BY THE INDWELLING POWER / SPIRIT OF GOD, in that converted man.
Doing Works to KEEP your salvation, Trying really hard, continuing to sin, repeatedly asking for Forgiveness for sins one claims to Commit... IS ALL hogwash, FOR A Converted man.