Outer Darkness?

[Ohio]

Originally Posted by A little brother

Then the question is who is truly rebirthed. I still can't imagine how a regenerated believer truly with God's life in him still act like an unbeliever in the world. I have to take the position that there are only true believers and unbelievers. True (faithful) believers get the reward and unbelievers get the punishment in the end.

Little Brother, many children of God have acted worse than the unbelievers. Look at what Paul writes about Christians in God's great house (2.20) in II Timothy 3.

I have met some who confessed to being genuinely saved and baptized as children, yet as adults were as prodigals (Luke 15) who cared nothing for God.

There are also some who harbor bitter hatred towards God because of past pains and disappointments.

The lives of God's children are as diverse as His entire creation.