unbelief
IPA: ʌnbɪɫˈif
noun
- An absence (or rejection) of belief, especially religious belief
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Examples of "unbelief" in Sentences
- They have unbelief in god.
- Unbelief causes faith to be ineffectual.
- He told them to get rid of their unbelief.
- It is also out of place to assert unbelief.
- Unbelief causes your faith to become unproductive.
- Your unbelief will cause your faith not to produce.
- Perhaps unbelief is genetic, like homosexual orientation.
- Second, unbelief in the Lord Jesus Christ is not Anathema.
- So, the size of the faith does not do away with the unbelief.
- He was not acting in unbelief hoping God was going to do something.
- Belief and unbelief are not the same religion, to those who believe.
- Our forefathers would have laughed in unbelief and derision at such excuses.
- His unbelief is of a piece with his attempt to deaden his emotions and decrease his vulnerability.
- This may be logical, but it is not the truth: it seems to me that it is really distrust, incurable doubt of the future, a sense of the justice but not of the goodness of God -- in short, unbelief, which is my misfortune and my sin.
- Based on a series of lectures he gave to large audiences at Tübingen in 1967, the book is evidence that he is no stranger to unbelief — that despite his strict Catholic upbringing and constant faith he knows unbelief from the inside.
- There are times when the word unbelief is used to describe the doubts of those who are definitely believers but only when they are at a stage of doubting which is rationally inexcusable and well on the way to becoming full-grown unbelief e.g.
- Applying this general rule to the particular case that Paul has before him, the reason why the unworthy, undeserving, ill-deserving Gentiles are called, and grafted into the church, while the greatest part of the Jews are left to perish in unbelief, is not because those Gentiles were better deserving or better disposed for such a favour, but because of God's free grace that made that difference.