Those who already listen and learn from the Father ( the condition) are the same ones whom the Father draws to the Son.
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The [Total Inability] still stands ... as you said, they listened and learned FROM THE FATHER: God made the first move - like calling to a hiding Adam or touching Lydia's heart to hear Paul's message.
1689 Baptist Confession of Faith
Chapter 5: Of Divine Providence
God the good Creator of all things, in His infinite power and wisdom does uphold, direct, dispose, and govern all creatures and things,1 from the greatest even to the least,2 by His most wise and holy providence, to the end for the which they were created, according unto His infallible foreknowledge, and the free and immutable counsel of His own will; to the praise of the glory of His wisdom, power, justice, infinite goodness, and mercy.3
1
Heb. 1:3;
Job 38:11;
Isa. 46:10–11;
Ps. 135:6
2
Matt. 10:29–31
3
Eph. 1;
11
Although in relation to the foreknowledge and decree of God, the first cause, all things come to pass immutably and infallibly;4 so that there is not anything befalls any by chance, or without His providence;5 yet by the same providence He ordered them to fall out according to the nature of second causes, either necessarily, freely, or contingently.6
4
Acts 2:23
5
Prov. 16:33
6
Gen. 8:22
God, in his ordinary providence makes use of means,7 yet is free to work without,8 above,9 and against them10 at His pleasure.
7
Acts 27:31,
44;
Isa. 55:10–118
Hosea 1:7
9
Rom. 4:19–21
10
Dan. 3:27
The almighty power, unsearchable wisdom, and infinite goodness of God, so far manifest themselves in His providence, that His determinate counsel extends itself even to the first fall, and all other sinful actions both of angels and men;11 and that not by a bare permission, which also He most wisely and powerfully binds, and otherwise orders and governs,12 in a manifold dispensation to His most holy ends;13 yet so, as the sinfulness of their acts proceeds only from the creatures, and not from God, who, being most holy and righteous, neither is nor can be the author or approver of sin.14
11
Rom. 11:32–34;
2 Sam. 24:1;
1 Chron. 21:1
12
2 Kings 19:28;
Ps. 76:10
13
Gen. 1:20;
Isa. 10:6–7,
12
14
Ps. 1,
Ps. 21;
1 John 2:16
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You need to hate what we actually believe as defined by scripture rather than your imagination.]
I mean GPS. But seriously folks calvinism is like being up a creek without a paddle no matter what the map says.
