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Originally Posted by Trapped
I said they are true believers and false believers. (false believer is different from an unbeliever) This would make them both "believers" in name, and even all of them could be present in the church. There are plenty of people who say they are Christian but think sin is no big deal, who were born into a Christian family and think that saves them, who walk around thinking they are ok with God because they don't know the gospel. They often in appearance seem to be a believer (tare who looks like wheat, mixed in with the wheat).
Trapped
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I´m having a hard time understanding your definition of "false believer." Let me use other terminology; from this point of view, there are only 2 kinds of people in the world: in the New Testament during the age of grace, we have 1.) those who have been regenerated, who have received the life of God, they are sons of God. And 2.) those who do not have the life of God, who are not regenerated, they are not born again.
So I see a "true believer" as a born again, regenerated son of God. A "false believer" is the same as an "unbeliever;" he is not born again: they could be bad people or good people, religious, gamblers, abusers, classical piano players, football stars, murderes, tares, presidents, scientists. It does not matter; they were never born again.
A tare does not have the life of the wheat; it might look and act the same, but in its essence, it does not have the life of wheat. That is the difference. So the foolish virgins cannot be tares, they are wheat. They have the life of God.