Okay... Let me explain to you how pronouns work. When you talk about a person over and over, it sounds awkward to keep using his name for every reference. So once you identify a person with their name, subsequent references can be made with a pronoun, which refers to the person previously referenced:
"Peter went to the store. After that, he spent some time at the park. Then he went to get a coffee. Finally he went home."
Every mention of "he" is referring back to the same person, namely Peter. Subsequent pronouns always have the same referent, unless there is something in the text to indicate a new individual/subject is being referenced.
"Peter came to the presentation.
He is from Boston. ("He" refers to Peter.)
Peter was listening to Bill, who was speaking of investments.
He suggested a diverse investment plan." ("He" is now referring to Bill.)
Now, let's look at the verse in question:
John 6:44 No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him(1). And I will raise him(2) up on the last day.
There are two instances of the pronoun here ("him", objective pronoun). They are both referring to the same person (namely the one Jesus is discussing whether they can come or not).
There is NOTHING in the text between the first "him" and the second "him" to warrant claiming a different referent, or that there are people who are allegedly "drawn" yet are not raised up at the last day (because they allegedly do not "come"). The only reason for ASSUMING a different referent is to try to smuggle in the false teaching of "free will" to try to claim man gets to decide whether he "comes" or not, to try to defend God and place the blame on man.
You appear to not understand the issue
there is no change of referent the whom comes is raised up
The second clause “Except the Father draws him” ties the “him” in that clause automatically to the unstated one who does come, assumed in the plea of the first clause, though stated in the negative.
Those who disagree are just going to have to find a scholar they respect who is good with the rules of logic and then ask him if the drawing is a distributed term in this verse that makes it mean everyone who is drawn will come and will be raised up… or is it an undistributed term… meaning those that come will be first drawn and then after coming be raised up… It does no prove that everyone, just because they drawn will come, nor that they will be raised up just because they were drawn.
brianwagner
Further, the Arminian misinterpretation denies the meaning of the term, "draw" ("ελκυω"). I have previously posted
a word study on "draw" in English and "ελκυω" in Greek (
link). There is ZERO usage of the term where somene is "drawn" but does not "come". It means "impel" or "compel".
You can't say a flame "draws" moths, unless they COME.
You can't say you "drew" the blinds, unless they were drawn.
You can't say the band "drew" a crowd, unless the crowd came.
You can't say the musketeer "drew" his sword, unless it came out of the sheath.
So not only does the Arminian interpretation DENY the meaning of the term, "draw", but there is ZERO evidence in the Bible of someone who was "drawn" but did not "come".
We don't have to "make" the verse say that, because it's what it NATURALLY means.
Lets see if there in any truth to that claim
The same Greek word for “drawn” is used in the LXX in Neh 9:30… (esdras 19:30) and that group of Israelites, though drawn by God to the opportunity to obey Him, did not do it.
Nehemiah 9:30 (YLT)
30 `And Thou drawest over them many years, and testifiest against them by Thy Spirit, by the hand of Thy prophets, and they have not given ear, and Thou dost give them into the hand of peoples of the lands,
The Hebrew word for “drawn” used in Neh 9:30 is also used in Hos 11:4-5, which again is showing that Israel was “drawn” by God with love to Himself, but they refused Him. Brian Wagner
also
Jeremiah 31:3–4 (KJV 1900)
3 The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying,
Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love:
Therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
4 Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel:
Thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets,
And shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
Helko is also used at 4Macc 14:13; 15:11(8) meaning influence