Jn 6:44
44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
No man can come here means no man has the ability to come to Christ. That cancels out the myth that man has a freewill,
It also means that no man has the ability to believe on Christ for Salvation. Because Christ equates believing on Him with coming to Him. Jn 6:64-65
64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
What about those Jesus says to them Jn 5:40
40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.
Thats answered in Jn 6:44 they simply will not come because they cannot come unless the Power of God draws them and makes them willing
Ps 110:3
3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
If and when one comes to believe on Christ willingly, the credit goes to Gods Power !
I don't even come close to understanding your argument. Your initial text says that no one can come to God except as they are drawn to God. How does that destroy our power of choice? I married my wife because I was drawn to her. Does that mean I lost all capability of making a choice? Of course not. I made the choice to allow myself to be drawn.
Our relationship with God works the same way. He extends His love to us and we are attracted by the love and the goodness of God. That doesn't destroy anyone's power of choice. God's love influences us. It doesn't destroy our power of choice. His influence on us enables us to choose Him because of what we see in Him. I chose to follow God because of the love of justice, His innate goodness to us, and the example of Jesus showing us what love really means. That didn't destroy my power of choice. Millions of other people see those same things and still reject the love of God.
I knew a guy back in the 1970s who was an extremely wild party animal. He had done some very strange, destructive, things during his lifetime. I ran into him in a bar one night. I was sitting at the bar and talking to the bartender when she had the time, and he walked up, sat down and struck up a conversation with me. He said something to me that shocked me. He asked me what I was doing in a bar drinking. He said I belong in this bar but you don't. You know God, so what are you doing here? Now how he knew this was beyond me as I had never talked to him about spiritual things. Then he went on to speak about his own spiritual condition and how he knew God was very good and very loving, but he said it just wasn't for him. He didn't want that in his life but that he saw that desire in me to have a relationship with God. We talked for a while and then went our separate ways. That was the last time I ever spoke to him. He died in a house fire a few months later and witnesses said he was up and walking around inside the house but made no move to leave. It was like he chose to die rather than live.
It's all about choices. God never destroys our power to choose. It is He that gives us that power, and gives us the power to choose Him over our fallen natures. In other words, God insures that we are able to choose between good and evil, hate and love, righteousness and unrighteousness. He does that because of His love. It's the devil who is the manipulator, the one who loves to control us and keep us from making choices. That is so obvious from scripture I don't know how anyone can miss it. Look at Jesus' interactions with demon possessed people. They couldn't make a choice on their own. He had to free them from the power of the devil before they could make a choice. The devil uses his power to control. God uses His power to give us liberty.
