"Jesus said to him, I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." [Joh 14:6]
"But though He had done so many miraculous signs before them, they did not believe into Him, so that the Word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he said, "Lord, who has believed our report? And the arm of the Lord, to whom was it revealed?" Isa. 53:1
"Because of this they could not believe, because Isaiah said again, "He has blinded their eyes" and "has hardened their heart," "that they might not see with the eyes" and "understand with the heart," "and be converted," "and I should heal them."Isa. 6:10" [Joh 12:37-40]
"What then? What Israel seeks, this it did not obtain, but the election obtained it, and the rest were hardened;" [Rom 11:7]
"... But their thoughts were hardened, for until the present time the same veil remains on the reading of the Old Covenant, not being unveiled, that it is being done away in Christ." [2Co 3:14]
"... in whom the god of this age has blinded the thoughts of the unbelieving, so that the brightness of the gospel of the glory of Christ who is the image of God, should not dawn on them." [2Co 4:4]
"No one is able to come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up in the last day." [Joh 6:44]
If Father bestows the gift of believing on some now, must He not, if He is just, bestow the same gift on all eventually? Shall not the Judge of the earth do right?
"For God shut up all into disobedience, that He may show mercy to all." [Rom 11:32]
"... because it was granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer on His behalf, ..." [Php 1:29]
"But as many as received Him, to them He gave authority to become children of God, to the ones believing into His name, who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but were born of God." [Joh 1:12-13]
"For by grace you are saved, through faith, and this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God; ..." [Eph 2:8]
"And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all to myself." [Joh 12:32]
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