The reason Jesus’s audience in John 6 walked away was not because God rejected them before the foundation of the earth, as the Calvinistic rendering of this passage would suggest. Rather, God has consistently expressed His desire for the repentance and faith of every person (Matt. 23:37; Rom. 10:31; Ezek. 18:30–31; 2 Pet. 3:9; 1 Tim. 2:4; Hos. 3:1).
