Originally Posted by SeaBass
Men are taught, hear and learn the word of God, and it by that hearing men have faith. So the drawing is nothing magical or irresistible. The result of God drawing is "cometh unto Me" man of his free will comes to God.
God draws, we come.
Originally Posted by jdbear
Outstanding exegis!
Originally Posted by Elin
Except for it contradicting Ro 8:7-8.
But yet: agrees to the following (to those who do not know, red letters mean that Jesus, your LORD , said it):
Mat 10:32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 10:33 But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
Mat 12:50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
Mar 8:34 And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
Luk 6:47 Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
Luk 14:27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.
Joh 3:15-16 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Joh 4:14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
Joh 11:26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?
Joh 12:46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
Act 2:21 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Rom 9:33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
1Jn 3:10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
1Jn 4:15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
Rev 22:17 And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.
You referenced:
Rom 8:7-8 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
Then maybe we should die to the flesh and become alive to the Spirit, seeing that:
Rom 8:5 For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.
Seeing that to be fleshly is death, but spiritual is life and peace:
Rom 8:6 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.