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Also, every historic Christian group agrees with what Christ said in that passage. Apart from God's grace enabling us, we would never come to Christ.
However:
"No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.
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He went on to say, "This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has enabled them." -- John 6
So God has worked "enablement" into a person before he chooses whether or not to accept Christ, and if God has not already done that "enablement," then the person cannot choose Christ.
Now, I don't know how much of a conclusion can be drawn from that, or that one can be drawn as far as Reformed Theology attempts to draw it.
I see the purpose of those statements as an encouragement to evangelists that there will be people who will respond to the gospel, and an encouragement to those who have accepted Christ that God's favor has been planned for them from eternity past, reliable and not fickle.
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