"You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink."
Even God almighty does not "make" people believe after the Holy Spirit reveals the truth of the Word of God to them. He divides people into two positions of existance; believers and unbelievers.
Jesus Christ is plain in his teachings as he teaches concerning these positions in John 3. Jesus is definitely teaching that one believes and is not condemned, or one refuses to believe and is condemned already.
15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. John 3:15-21 KJV
Notice in verse 20 above that Jesus states that everyone that does evil, hates the light and refuses to come to the light so that their deeds go uncorrected. In verse 21 Jesus says that those who believe come to the light and are those that are in the truth.
There are no other classifications that people can be catoragorized in other than these two catagories; believers and unbelievers. Each of us is one or the other according to Jesus Christ.



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