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Yes. . .one who is spiritually dead cannot "choose" to spiritually believe. He must be born again into eternal spiritual life to be able to make a spiritual choice of faith.
Those who fail to "remain," never really turned in the first place.
Yes, they will persevere to the end because they are good soil.
We know that the elect will persevere, that they're good soil-that's redundant, in fact. No one can predict their own perseverance, however, nor can they have 100% certainty that they aren't deceiving themselves about their status of election. The Westminster Confession affirms this possibility. OTOH, confidence is quite reasonably warranted if they find themselves producing good fruit: overcoming sin, doing good, giving, loving well, IOW. That's the surest way to have an assurance that our opinion is more than just that.
So how do you interpret John 12:36?
Ok so God created them in a fallen state knowing that they are incapable of meeting His expectations unless He was to intervene and enable them, then punishes them for failing to meet the expectations that He already knew that they were incapable of meeting when He created them?
