by John Hendryx

Visitor: If monergistic regeneration is true, why oppose others views on homosexual marriage and other controversial issues? “No man can come to Me unless the Father who send Me draw him”

Response: we really don’t even need a controversial issue. All human beings, apart from grace, are in bondage to sin and cannot do otherwise.

You were born with the inability to perfectly obey the 10 commandments. And are you saying now that a person can come to faith apart from grace, and apart from the work of the Holy Spirit? Being “born this way” does not alleviate us or responsibility.

If you can obey all of God’s commands by yourself, with your own boasted free will, apart from grace, then you frankly don’t need Christ, and could save yourself. Christ came precisely because we cannot help ourselves. It is a matter of mercy. Consider this example: if you borrowed $100 million from the bank to start a new company and instead you squandered it all in a week of wild living in Las Vegas.

Does your inability to repay the bank alleviate you of the responsibility to do so? No of course not. Likewise we all fell in Adam and are responsible for all of our subsequent sins. Our inability to lift a finger toward our salvation, after the fall, does not alleviate us from the responsibility to obey. Otherwise, using your logic, God would be obligated to forgive us all because the fall rendered us morally impotent.

But this simply is not the case. When God shows ill-deserving sinners that, from our own natural resources we cannot obey His commands (Rom 3:19, 20; 1 Cor 2:14), we then, by grace, turn to God for mercy. And yet God is not obligated to save anyone. He would be just to send us all to the lake of fire. But he has mercy on many in Jesus Christ, in spite of our rebellion.

‎”No man can come to Me unless the Father who send Me draw him” – John 6:44 …. Take a look just before this verse (44) to verse 37 which is in the same context …. it says “ALL THAT THE FATHER GIVES TO BE WILL COME TO ME.” Not some but ALL. This means that ALL persons that the Father draws will believe. Come to me means believe in me. This create a syllogism which makes the non-Reformed understanding of the verse, frankly, untenable.

The original appears at Reformation Theology right here.

HT: Monergism.com

See also:

JAMES ROBISON AND RICK WARREN WORKING TO REVERSE THE PROTESTANT REFORMATION

HOMOSEXUAL AGENDA EVIL PERSONIFIED

JAMES ROBISON SAYS JESUS IS IN THE HEART OF MORMON GLENN BECK