If you're lost in sin, HOW can you choose Christ?
John 6:44: "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day."
No one CAN come.... "can" indicates ability. Christ didn't say, "No one MAY come..." which would imply/mean permission. We are UNABLE to come unless the Father draws us to Christ. We are acted upon; we do not act of our own ability; prior to being called, our actions would always be consistent with our choice to act against Christ.
Hoss
“I’d say he meant his son was dead and then made alive.. kinda like being dead in sin and then being regenerated by God — being able THEN to accept his Son Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior.”
What does the text say?
“But when he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired men have more than enough bread, but I am dying here with hunger! 18 I will get up and go to my father...”
Did his father pick him up and carry him home? Or did he come to his sense - even at a time when his father called him “dead”?
And what of all the verses calling the unsaved sick, or captive? Is a sick man dead? Is a slave dead? Is a blind man dead?
At what point will Calvinists look at all the scripture, and not just a handful of verses?