There would be no reason to hold people responsible for believing or failing to believe in Jesus
if the unregenerate person can not actually believe.
Not exact matches
If this man was indeed
unregenerate, he went away with a message in his head that would make it harder for him to be born again.
Therefore, even
if God graciously gave faith to an
unregenerate person, it would not matter because the person — as an
unregenerate — would not be able to believe!
With this view, even
unregenerate people, like Pharaoh, Cyrus, Judas, and the Jewish people can be chosen, even
if they never received eternal life.
If God chooses some of the
unregenerate to be regenerate, then this verse should say that God chose us to be in Him.
By way of contrast, the non-Christian, deprived of supernatural revelation, was possessed only of natural knowledge, lived his life in the secular sphere, and performed purely secular or natural activities that merited him only a natural beatitude
if they were naturally good.1 The atheist, however, being obdurate in his unbelief, was
unregenerated and therefore considered unworthy even of a natural beatitude.