“Nothing is absurd about digging into the deeper meaning behind words in Scripture.”
But you didn’t dig deeper into the meaning of a word. Nor does it appear that you read the whole sentence. Since you are trying to assert that the “those who cometh to me,” contradicts the “All that the Father giveth to me shall come to me.” I suppose you will then quote the word “eat” to prove the Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation and eating the body of Christ, when quite clearly to eat is to digest Christ by faith? And to come to is to believe on Christ, as stated earlier?
And what’s the point of reading one word, when you don’t even bother to read the entire sentence? And so then you start saying silly things like ‘God gave us all life,” or “God is the prime-mover,” and this you took from “All that the Father hath given me shall come to me,” which has nothing whatever to do with anything you are saying.
“The point is, I agree that the stirring of our soul to follow Jesus does originate with the Father, but I disagree that some people are not ‘selected’ or allowed to believe/follow Jesus because they weren’t somehow chosen before their birth.”
Whether you disagree or not doesn’t matter to me, since you can’t rub out the scripture, no matter how long you talk about irrelevant things.