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/* Fifteen */ comment on Jn 10:27-29 - while "no one can snatch them out of the Father's hand" they can choose to depart and forfeit their security
:Within the context of the whole Bible doctrine, which includes Deuteronomy 30:19; Joshua 24:15, 22; Ezekiel chapter 18; Acts 17:30; 2 Peter 3:9; Revelation 22:17, every human being has free will to accept, consciously and unconsciously, the universally available free gift of God to be ''able'' to repent and be saved. On the basis of these verses, the Bible teaches that all souls have been given by God the unmerited gift of the grace of ''ability'' to come to Jesus and be saved by him; but because "men loved darkness rather than light", therefore those who are lost are all those who have consciously or unconsciously in their hearts and souls freely resisted the ever-present gift of ready ability to come to him and be saved from the wrath of God that comes on the disobedient and selfish and the ungodly. Compare Romans 2:6-11. Only those who perceive consciously or unconsciously in their hearts and souls the goodness of God are willingly drawn to him. God does not arbitrarily draw them who have no free will to himself by an irresistible decree, dragging them unresisting to himself; but those who come to him with free will are attracted by the [[Witnessing|witness]] of his people and the [[testimony]] of the scriptures and what they personally sense of him in their souls of his holiness and goodness and power, and they are drawn to him with a willing heart by his attractiveness, and they are attracted. All are ''able'', but not all are willing. And the Father has given to Jesus all who choose to come to him, "whosoever will". John 6:37-41; Revelation 22:17. No one is excluded.
 
:Compare John 10:27-29; 2 Peter 3:17-18; Hebrews 10:23-31, ''especially'' Hebrews 10:35; and John 15:4-10. While "no one shall snatch them out of my hand...and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand", and "neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:38-39), they can choose to depart, and forfeit their security. This is why the New Testament has so many warnings to remain faithful. If the human soul has no free will such warnings would not have been given by God in the Bible and in the preaching of the Gospel by God's Church.
:There are two opposing interpretive readings of these verses. One reading sees that ''only those who come to him'' have been chosen by the irresistible election of God for the gift of salvation from his wrath, and therefore those who do not come to him are not among elect; the other reading sees that ''all without exception have been chosen and elected to salvation "from the foundation of the world"'' because God is not willing that any should perish, but not all have chosen to respond to and accept the universal grace of the freely available power to come to him and be cleansed of their sins and be saved, because they find nothing about him that is attractive to them, and for this reason they are not drawn to him, and are not attracted to his ways. 2 Corinthians 2:14-16; Matthew 25:24-29; Luke 19:11-27; Wisdom 1:12–2:24; Ezekiel 18.
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