John 3:18-21 [Young's LITERAL Translation]
18 he who is believing in him is not judged, but he who is not believing hath been judged already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 'And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil; 20 for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected; 21 but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'
- "not believing" = has been judged already ... pre-salvation, do people BELIEVE or are they "not believing"?
- THE JUDGEMENT (on all who have not yet believed) = "men love darkness" (evil); "hate the light" (good/Jesus); "does not come to the light" (Jesus)
- What of those that do come to the light, how is that possible? ... "in God they are having been wrought" (God did the work, not men).
John 6:44-45 [Young's LITERAL Translation]
44 no one is able to come unto me, if the Father who sent me may not draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day; 45 it is having been written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God; every one therefore who heard from the Father, and learned, cometh to me;
- By human power ... "no one is able to come unto me".
- Unless ... the FATHER DRAWS them.
- Note that the "them" that are drawn by the Father are the same "them" that are raised to life on the last day ... THOSE DRAWN are all GLORIFIED!
- "they" (those drawn and glorified) ... "shall be all taught of God"
- "every one" (those drawn and glorified and taught of God) ... "cometh to me" ... comes to Jesus.
- There is only 1 group (they) being spoken of. This one group is taught by the Father, drawn to the Son, comes to the Son and raised by the Son to glory on the last day.
- That is not true of "all men without exception".
You are mistaken, but rather than arguing line by line I will just point out this fact ... the Chapters and Verse numbers were added later for convenience, but the original scroll just flowed without interruption. So this comes immediately BEFORE and AFTER Chapter 9 to provide context for the flow and the overall subject ...
Romans 8:31-39 [YLT]
31 What, then, shall we say unto these things? if God [is] for us, who [is] against us? 32 He who indeed His own Son did not spare, but for us all did deliver him up, how shall He not also with him the all things grant to us? 33 Who shall lay a charge against the choice ones of God? God [is] He that is declaring righteous, 34 who [is] he that is condemning? Christ [is] He that died, yea, rather also, was raised up; who is also on the right hand of God -- who also doth intercede for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 36 (according as it hath been written -- 'For Thy sake we are put to death all the day long, we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter,')
37 but in all these we more than conquer, through him who loved us; 38 for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, 39 nor things about to be, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, that [is] in Christ Jesus our Lord.
[Romans 9]
Romans 10:1-13 [YLT]
1 Brethren, the pleasure indeed of my heart, and my supplication that [is] to God for Israel, is -- for salvation; 2 for I bear them testimony that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge, 3 for not knowing the righteousness of God, and their own righteousness seeking to establish, to the righteousness of God they did not submit.
4 For Christ is an end of law for righteousness to every one who is believing, 5 for Moses doth describe the righteousness that [is] of the law, that, 'The man who did them shall live in them,' 6 and the righteousness of faith doth thus speak: 'Thou mayest not say in thine heart, Who shall go up to the heaven,' that is, Christ to bring down? 7 or, 'Who shall go down to the abyss,' that is, Christ out of the dead to bring up. 8 But what doth it say? 'Nigh thee is the saying -- in thy mouth, and in thy heart:' that is, the saying of the faith, that we preach; 9 that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved, 10 for with the heart doth [one] believe to righteousness, and with the mouth is confession made to salvation; 11 for the Writing saith, 'Every one who is believing on him shall not be ashamed,' 12 for there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord of all [is] rich to all those calling upon Him, 13 for every one -- whoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.'
Ephesians 2:8 [YLT]
for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you -- of God the gift,
You seem to think that to some extent (at least the faith) is 100% "OF YOU" vs "not of you". On this we will simply agree to disagree.
- Romans 12:3 [YLT] For I say, through the grace that was given to me, to every one who is among you, not to think above what it behoveth to think; but to think so as to think wisely, as to each God did deal a measure of faith,
