The doctrine of election: offensive to the unelect even in Jesus day. Everyone the Father teaches will be raised up on the last day. It therefore follows that those who are not raised up on the last day, have never been taught God. According to this passage, it is not possible for a person to be taught by God and then apostatize from the faith. That removes any kind of notion that there is a kind of common grace or well-meant offer where God can teach people about himself salvifically yet have that person reject Christ and be lost eternally. John 6:44-46 (ESV) No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. It is written in the Prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me. John 6:37-39 (ESV) All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. John 6:60-66 (ESV) When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?” But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Do you take offense at this? Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.) And he said, “This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.” After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.
Posted on: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:58:57 +0000
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