Who are unbelievers?
When we talk about whom unbelievers are, we are usually talking about the word “belief” as it refers to intellectual assent to something. There is another way that the Bible uses the word belief, meaning a relational trust in someone. When the Bible says “as many as believed him to them he gave the right to become the children of God,” it’s talking about that relational trust in him. There are, obviously, a lot of people in the United States who have an intellectual belief in Christ, but who have never really put their trust in him. When we talk about people of other beliefs who have sincerity about them to the point that they are envied for their resolve and their belief, we wonder how they could be wrong. The truth is, it’s obvious to all of us that you can be sincerely wrong. We know that we can be sincerely wrong about something like the law of gravity. It’s a scientific fact that, if you try to deny it and step out of a second story window, you will find yourself falling to the gr
