Yeah, and whosoever will let him come and take of the water of life freely is also Biblical...and if I be lifted up I will draw all men unto me....and many many more scriptures....
Oh and I thought people who come to Biblical truth were called Christians....I thought we were supposed to be Christ like...but hey what do I know, right.
If all men are drawn all are saved. Jesus says all that the Father gives to him are drawn by the Father. He says they
will come to him and he
will raise them up on the last day. You cause scripture to contradict itself. Jesus couldn't have meant all are drawn to him in the sense of literally all people who ever live. If that is what he means, he contradicted himself earlier in the same book or else you have to conclude universalism. It has to mean all types, both Jews and Gentiles. Grace was extended to the entire world (not all people, but people groups, not only Jews).
John 6
35 Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. 36 But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. 37
All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. 38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. 39 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. 40 For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”
41 So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” 42 They said, “Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” 43 Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves. 44
No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day. 45 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— 46 not that anyone has seen the Father except he who is from God; he has seen the Father. 47 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life.
Jesus is bound by his own words to raise up all that are drawn to him. All that are given to him
will come to him. It's not an invitation. It's an irresistible drawing (the word used means
to drag). Either Jesus was teaching universalism or not all are drawn.
Also, read the rest of the chapter you quoted:
When Jesus had said these things, he departed and hid himself from them. 37 Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him, 38 so that the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:
“Lord, who has believed what he heard from us,
and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
39 Therefore
they could not believe. For again Isaiah said,
40 “He has blinded their eyes
and hardened their heart,
lest they see with their eyes,
and understand with their heart, and turn,
and I would heal them.”
There is a theme all throughout the book of John. It begins like this:
John 1
9 The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. 11 He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. 12 But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, 13
who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
Just because a sentence has the word
all, it has to be defined by the rest of scripture.
John 3
3 Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you,
unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” 4 Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” 5 Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is
born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. 6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Do not marvel that I said to you, ‘You must be born again.’ 8
The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its sound, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
John 15
16
You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
This theme is continued in 1 John:
1 John 4
4 Little children,
you are from God and have overcome them, for he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 5
They are from the world; therefore they speak from the world, and the world listens to them. 6
We are from God. Whoever knows God listens to us; whoever is not from God does not listen to us. By this we know the Spirit of truth and the spirit of error.
7 Beloved, let us love one another,
for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. 10 In this is love,
not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.
13 By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because
he has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. 16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us.
And Jesus said this:
John 10
11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life
for the sheep. 12 He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them. 13 He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd.
I know my own and my own know me, 15 just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life
for the sheep. 16
And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.
This same theme can clearly be seen all throughout scripture. A good way to see it is to read the bible from cover to cover and not get hung up on single verses that support your presuppositions. Once you've done that a few times, context is made much more clear.
