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If Jesus didn't qualify His statement, then He is obviously speaking about water, right? I don't think so.

They all were so certain that Hillary would win, and then none of this would have ever come to light.

Well. . . Okay. I'm pretty sure we would agree that He didn't mean physical thirst, so we are left with spiritual thirst, of some kind. He spoke in the Beatitudes of thirst for righteousness. I would again argue that unregenerate men don't thirst for righteousness. If not for righteousness...

By speaking the words, "If any man thirst. . ." He, through His word, and by the Spirit, does His work.

Jesus didn't have a traveling sideshow. His miracles revealed spiritual truth. They weren't spectacles. His miracles were not disconnected from spiritual realities. There is no other way to understand the story, but to see that Jesus calls His elect, by His word, and they are made alive.

Why don't all men thirst? The only reason so do is that they have been regenerated, aka, born again. Like a new baby doesn't need instruction regarding feeding from its mother's breast, new Christians hunger and thirst for Christ. Prior to regeneration, no man desires God or things of God.

Where do you find sheep choosing a shepherd? That's not how it works. "but you do not believe because you are not among my sheep." (John 10:26) "And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed."...

I would be wasting my time discussing this with you. In that you are correct. In right standing before God coming through obedience to the Law, you are also correct. Unfortunately for you, you have not done so. Fortunately, for the rest of us, Christ has obeyed the Law, and through His life and...

But, Jesus loves your children, i.e., "Unconditionally" (so you assert). Why are they not counted his sheep in your view? You view creates a schizophrenia as you speak out of both sides of your mouth to your children. You brag that you tell them Jesus loves them when you tuck them in at night...

Do you let your children partake of the Lord's Supper from an age at which they can chew the bread? If not, why not?

Does God love Satan or his offspring?

And, the very high ground you stand upon which condemns 95% of Christendom as, "built upon incorrect soteriological conjecturer" is???

This is referring to God's children, not Satan's.

If we heard a Calvinist and an Arminian proclaim the gospel, would we hear the identical thing? I think not. In fact, I know not.

I agree. No one (non-Cal) will admit the conflict. It remains, however.

All doctrine should be formed from an understanding of the entire canon. Less weight should be given to poetic language vs didactic teaching on a matter. We should avoid being biblicists and literalists and treat different genres - differently.

You seem to ignore that God made the rules. He gave the Great Commission as the means to call in the sheep.

Why did Jesus give the Great Commission, if that is the case?

The rules are included in God's written word. My answer is based on my knowledge of His word, but yet it is speculative. Between the two, go with the former. There is no explicit answer to your question given in the texts.

That is incorrect, sir.