God says in 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 is not talking about a precondition for salvation. We read in Philippians 2:13** For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
It might not seem right to us in our heart because we are all part of the sin problem. By nature, we are all under the wrath of God. We are not able to understand the perfect justice of God. We must remember that no one will go to hell because God viciously wants people to go to hell. People are under the wrath and will go to hell because they are in rebellion against God. God did not create man to destroy him in hell; God created man in His image, to love and obey Him, and to have the highest good from Him.
God warned mankind, beginning with our first parents Adam and Eve, that in the day mankind rebelled, that is, if they ate of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they would surley die. In the face of this warning, and the fact that mankind was created perfect, and the fact that God was perfectly loving toward them, they rebelled. Therefore, the perfect justice and the perfect righteousness of God came into play, and God had no alternative but to send mankind to hell. By rights the whole human race ought to end up in hell.
Romans 3:10-12** As it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one; there is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. they are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
so as you can see, we must change our thinking, because our will or desire or love has nothing to do with being a precondition for salvation. For as you see, it is only by the grace of God, that we are all here in the first place seeking Him. He put it in us to seek Him.
The bible says in Matthew 22:24** For many are called, but few are chosen. So what happened to all these people who were called but not chosen? The gospel call is to go out to the whole world, God says in Mark 16:15** And he said unto them, go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
God does not say that we are to go into all the world and preach the Gospel to the elect of God, that is, those whome He has chosen. We have no idea who the elect are. We are to bring the Gospel to as many people as we are able to reach. We are to bring the Gospel as intensively and as extensively as possible. As the Gospel goes out, it is the Gospel call to the whole human race, god is commanding all people to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, Each on is commanded to believe on Him.
No one will respond to that command because everyone is spiritually dead in their sins. But, here and there, someone does respond. We here about this one or that one who has become saved. What happned to them? what happened is that god had chosen them to salvation, and at some point in their life, and they became saved.
I hope this cleared up some confusion. To summarize, double predestination is not biblical, it is not in the bible it is not even hinted at and it is man made doctrine to explain the unfairness of some being saved and some not being saved. And that is another indicator this is man made, man needs to rationally explain God in terms of fairness and logic, though our puny minds are not capable of explaining God. God gave us predestination to study and consider, somebody else created double predestination because they thought it was unfair. Is God unfair? Is God making this up as He goes? Does God know what He is doing? So we accept predestination and try to understand it in Gods words and terms, not ours, when that happens we get doctrine like double predestination which only serves to move people further from the biblical truth.
Prov 8:21 “That I may cause those who love Me to inherit wealth, that I may fill their treasuries.”
Prov 8:22 “The Lord possessed Me at the beginning of His way, before His works of old.”
Prov 8:23 “I have been established from everlasting, from the beginning, before there was ever an earth.”
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John 1:2 He was in the beginning with God.
John 1:3 All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.
John 1:4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men.
John 17:24 “Father, I desire that they also whom You gave Me may be with Me where I am, that they may behold My glory which You have given Me; for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.”
Rom 9:11 For the children not yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works but of Him who calls.
Eph 1:4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,
Eph 1:5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will
1Peter 1:19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as the Lamb without blemish and without spot.
1Peter 1:20 He indeed was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.
1Peter 1:21 who through Him believe in God, who raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope are in God.
