Priest Nikolay Evseev: "If the Cross is a weapon of death, how can it be power for those who are being saved?"

“The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God" (1 Cor. 1:18)
If the Cross is a weapon of death, how can it be power for those who are being saved? In other words, how can death be salutary? If one does not believe in eternal life, then this question is not worth asking.