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Good Day, FAH
You seem to assert that that this is speaking about enlightenment you have no basis in the text to come to that conclusion.
I use the word enlightenment because Calvinism speaks of the blindness of the sinner. The "drawing" you speak of clearly, according to your doctrine of Calvinism, is enlightenment, drawing to visibility.
If you read John 14 without bias, the drawing of the Father occurs because He loves those who obey His word. That is why I add to the scriptures.Then you further assert a reading of the text that is in no way supported by the words in the text
Just for fun of it I guess you really need to expand your context of Jn 14 and deal with those who (world) can not (inablity) just like Jn 6.
Joh 14:15 “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.
Why is it the world cannot receive the Spirt of truth, but others can receive?
That is fairly clear in John 14 they are not obedient so receive no revelation. This is a common thought from Jesus. As we see in John 3.
Joh 3:16-21 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God."
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