Salvation is for the Whole World
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Sorry, you will never convince me that spiritual faith is the cause of my eternal deliverance.
My spiritual faith has delivered me many times, as I sojourn here on earth, but only by God's grace in including me as one of those that he gave to his Son to redeem from our sins has delivered me eternally.
I'm simply making a statement of cause and effect. Jesus death makes eternal life possible. Being born from above makes it effectual to the individual.
The etc's you have mentioned are all directed to God's disobedient born again children. These are the ones that we are to pray for, just like Paul prayed for the disobedient children of God to turn away from their dependence upon their good works for their eternal deliverance., in Rom 10:1-3.
Once they sinned, this happened:
Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. Now a slave has no permanent
place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed."
When we are born again, we are but babes in Christ until we mature enough to come unto a knowledge of the gospel, and when we do, we are sealed ( given an earnest [pledge] of our inheritance) with that Spirit of promise.
No, but I do think that when one is born again, salvation has an attitude change on the newborn babe in Christ.
Salvation, according to Strong's concordance means "deliverance".
Born again children of God are pleasing God, and being delivered (saved) by their good works, when they are walking in his ways, by obeying his commandments, as they sojourn here on earth.
The entirety of scripture is God’s commands, man’s INABILITY and need for a savior. But leave it to Arminians to miss the point and get it backwards, “why does the Word say "Believe on me, receive me, harken, come on to me" etc, etc. Seems rather dumb when we are not able to do any of it.” 
This is scary 
God gives hundreds of commands throughout the Bible that mankind is unable to complete. But leave it to the Arminians to claim ability to do the one that grants eternal life.
How convenient for you.
Can you love as commanded, as Christ? No.
Can you selflessly give as commanded? No.
Can you be sinless? No.
Can you fear God as you should? No.
Can you believe as commanded? Yup, says the Arminian, I can do that one all on my own. I’m glory bound, yippeee.
This is scary God gives hundreds of commands throughout the Bible that mankind is unable to complete. But leave it to the Arminians to claim ability to do the one that grants eternal life.
How convenient for you.
Can you love as commanded, as Christ? No.
Can you selflessly give as commanded? No.
Can you be sinless? No.
Can you fear God as you should? No.
Can you believe as commanded? Yup, says the Arminian, I can do that one all on my own. I’m glory bound, yippeee.
Yes, we know that there are many versions of the bible that corrupt the scriptures.
All souls belong to God. He is the author and giver and sustainer of life. This is not to say that all are
His children. Obviously all are not His children. Some are children of wrath, those who have refused
God's offer of salvation through the forgiveness Christ's shed righteous blood provided for all.
Those who believe by grace through faith have the right to call themselves God's children.
God is drawing all men to Him. Those who resist do so because they love their sin.
Romans 8:15-16
I believe that John 6:39 tells us that Jesus only died for those that his Father gave him.
I also believe that Jesus's sacrifice was an offering to God, for God's acceptance, and not to mankind, for mankind's acceptance.
Do you have a reference scripture which states that all mankind is offered eternal salvation, that will harmonize with the other scriptures?
Do you deliberately misrepresent the Arminian position? I think you do. And repeatedly.The entirety of scripture is God’s commands, man’s INABILITY and need for a savior.
But leave it to Arminians to miss the point and get it backwards, “why does the Word
say "Believe on me, receive me, harken, come on to me" etc, etc. Seems rather
dumb when we are not able to do any of it.”
F of FACTS (as per Arminian beliefs): freed to believe by God's grace .
Desiring the salvation of all and having provided atonement for all people, God continues
to take the initiative for the purpose of bringing all people to salvation by calling all people
everywhere to repent and believe the gospel (Acts 17:30; cf. Matt 28:18-20), and by enabling
those who hear the gospel to respond to it positively in faith. Unaided by grace, man cannot
even choose to please God or to believe the promise of salvation held out in the gospel. source
You are fortunate that God chose you, before the foundations of the world. Do you evangelize the lost, or is it possible or necessary, according to your understanding?
We have been over this before, Forest. You claim John 6:39 says something it does not.