Carry_Your_Name
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For those who have never heard the gospel, including the mentally impaired, the cannibal tribes, infants who died shortly after birth, they still have a conscience, which bears witness the secrets in their hearts, and God will judge accordingly on an individual basis.Respectfully, you are not rightly understanding John 6:44: No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
This statement can be declared positively: All men drawn by the Father will come to me and I will infallibly save them.
I have already proven the power to draw is coterminous for both Father and Son.
Thus, the drawing power of the Father and Son will always ultimately result in coming to Jesus in saving faith.
Your testimony exactly coincides with this truth. The drawing power of God is always ultimately efficacious to those to whom it is applied.
Those who die never having come to faith in Jesus, were never drawn by the Father and/or the Son.
This is due to their reprobation, having never been decreed to receive the gracious gift of saving faith.
Jesus' statement: And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me, must be understood in context. Proper exegesis takes time and study to rightly interpret Scripture. Not all men will take the necessary time or make the necessary effort to do so. I applaud your godly effort to question my posts in order to gain a better understanding!
For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law (for not the hearers of the law are just in the sight of God, but the doers of the law will be justified; for when Gentiles, who do not have the law, by nature do the things in the law, these, although not having the law, are a law to themselves, who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them) in the day when God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel. (Rom. 2:12-16)
Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. (Rev. 20:11-13)