When studying and interpreting the Bible, it is important to remember that verses that seem to imply something do not have the ability to cancel verses that plainly and explicitly teach something.
For example, Arminians (vast majority of today's Christians) like to point to John 3:15, "Whoever believes will in Him have eternal life", to imply that everyone can believe if they so choose to do so, and therefor anyone can be saved, and therefor Christ died for everyone.
That is an understandable implicit conclusion, but here's the problem: in John 6:65, we learn that "No one can come to Me unless it has been granted him from the Father." - this verse *explicitly* says that all those in Christ have been granted to Him by God.
Therefor, in order to harmonize these verses, we must allow the explicit to rule out implicit inferences, thus concluding :
1. No one can be in Christ without God first granting their faith.
2. Those who *are granted faith* will have eternal life.
One might infer here that nobody who is granted faith in Christ by God will fail to be saved (have eternal life), and indeed John 6:39 confirms that "this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day."
This is an important concept, allowing the explicit to win against the implicit, when attempting to learn what God is telling is.
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