Calvinists maintain that God selected certain individuals for salvation before the world began, before drawing them to faith in him and his son, Jesus. In support of this, they maintain the interpretation of as Jesus stating the necessity of men being drawn to him as pre-ordained by God before they believe in him, and that only those pre-ordained for belief in him by God are drawn to him. Calvinists also use their interpretation of and in the writings of the apostle Paul as indication that God chose believers in Christ before the world was created, not based upon foreseen faith, but based upon his sovereign decision to save whomever he pleased to save.