John 10:38
John 10:37-38
“If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me; but if I do them, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I in the Father.”
Question: Given that Calvinism teaches that certain people are given an irresistible grace, by preemptively being made Born Again, how is it that although they do not believe in Jesus, they might well be persuaded to believe in His works?
Answer: An example is Nicodemus who ultimately concluded: “Rabbi, we know that You have come from God as a teacher; for no one can do these signs that You do unless God is with him.” If they had an Irresistible Grace, then they wouldn’t need to “believe the works,” as a backdoor, so-to-speak, to faith in Christ, which just goes to show that what leads a person to believe in Jesus is not an irresistible grace, but the sheer force of the gospel message.
