The sweetness of God's grace and drawing is reduced if you reject our ability to refuse. Otherwise you are, in whatever degree, susceptible to certain fantasies. God's reigning reigns, never touching our free will. Drawing, but not touching. Do you see the difference? It is truly sweet to see the difference.<br><br>God gives to those whom He draws because they are drawable. He draws all, not all are drawable. It is so easy to misread scripture and turn everything into calvanism. But don't do it. <br><br>Noone does have free will apart from God's will. That is how we came into existsence in the first place. <br><br>"Our soul had not the capacity to rightly choose God over the flesh. " O but it does. How? Through God's grace.<br><br>He makes us alive in Christ because He regenerates us give us a new spirit quickens our conscience. How did He do this? By us choosing Him by our free will. When this happened when it first happened, it was there and then that we had His life that worked in us.<br><br>I think what Calvanism does wrong is it tries to explain before regeneration and equate it with the life of the regenerated.<br>Before regeneration all there was was man's sinful will, then God prepared a way back to Him. It was not until man accepted that way back did then provide for His inner working in our lives of real working within. Neat huh? The soul like a steward still yet though saved chould refuse much of God's movements within for he still retains the sinful nature that never goes away as the flesh wars against the spirit to shut in the spirit.
