Joshua Lynch

You seem to be assuming synergism and using John 6.37 to show this passage is synergistic. First you have to prove the bible teaches synergism. You read synergism into this passage. The disciples did not hear a synergistic message. The end of John 6 (John 6.60-69) shows how even the disciples struggled with what Jesus had just said. If this was a synergistic message, what would they have taken offense to? In John 6.65 he restates John 6.37 in a different way and in the very next passage it states many of the disciples turned back and walked with him no longer. Again, if this was the synergistic teaching of you have the ability to believe if you try hard enough, why did many of his disciples turn back and no longer walk with Jesus? How do you prove synergism from the bible? If you use Matthew 23.37 please include “your children” in your quotation. You can go back to Erasmus’s Diatribe with Luther and he misquotes it the exact same way synergists misquote it today. I too will be praying your surgery goes perfectly.