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"'''For this cause I have said to you that no one can come to me, unless it is given to him by my Father.'''" WEB <small>
:John 6:65
:"''no one can come''" '''οὐδεὶς <big>δύναται</big>''' ''oudeis dynatai''. More literally, "''is '''able'''" (to come) "has power" (to come).
:See [http://biblehub.com/multi/john/6-65.htm multiple versions of John 6:65].
:Within the context of the whole Bible doctrine, which includes Deuteronomy 30:19; Joshua 24:15, 22; 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.
: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.
:Study the [http://biblehub.com/interlinear/john/6-65.htm interlinear text of John 6:65], in particular where it says "'''''able'''''":
::οὐδεὶς '''δύναται''' ἐλθεῖν πρός με , ἐὰν μὴ ᾖ δεδομένον αὐτῷ ἐκ τοῦ Πατρός .
::oudeis '''dynatai''' elthein pros me , ean mē ē dedomenon auto ek tou Patros .
::that no one '''is <big>able</big>''' to come to Me , if not it shall have been granted to him from the Father .
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