[xzins]

hardly.

it'd take an amyraldian to think fish want to be rescued from the water.

they want to be rescued from the frying pan. go build an analogy around that.

[drstevej]

The analogy was from Jesus' words. The natural man doesn't want to be rescued from sin either.

Billy Carter was once asked if he went to AA to give up drinking. He said, "No, I just wanted to learn to be a social drinker rather than an alcoholic."

[The Grammarian]

Apparently Drj. still thinks that "helkuo" always means 'drag.' Maybe in Attic Greek, but the New Testament wasn't written in Attic; it was written in Koine. See again Free Grace or Forced Grace?