By the Charity of God through Belief by means of Jesus Christ

     I've written about this before, but it came back into my mind this morning. Our deliverance from our inherited neurological error through Jesus Christ is activated by belief for a very simple reason: because it's already available to every human being, but you can't make use of something which you don't believe exists. It's the same as having a perfectly functional car to take you places, but if you don't believe the car works right, you'll never make use of it. Or the much simpler illustration of a stool. The stool may be right in front of you, but if you don't believe it will hold your weight, you will never sit on it.
     I am coming to believe more and more that everything which is written in the New Testament that is true of and available to Christians is true of and available to the entire human race regardless of who they are, where they come from, what their past is, or any other thing. That when Paul was writing about "us" and "we" in almost all cases, he was writing about the entire human race. The only thing keeping a human being from accessing all of it is whether or not they actually believe it, not because this automatically or magically transforms them, there is nothing to transform, it's already in place, but because you can't use what you don't believe or don't know exists.
     Is it possible for someone to stumble into it? To make use of it without knowing what they're using? Actually, yes. We as human beings do it all the time with certain forces of nature, fire being a chief one. These folks may not know the Christian terminology or concepts, but they make use of the Spirit of Christ all the same and sometimes better than professing Christians because every human being has access to Him because of Jesus Christ even if they don't know the who, what, or how. They have recognized that something is going on, something is available to them, believe that it works with some incomplete knowledge about it, and are therefore able to make use of it.
     We know from what Jesus Himself said, that every error and blasphemy will be forgiven to human beings except one. So forgiveness and union with God, or entry into heaven, is not at issue. It is made freely available to everyone unless someone deliberately chooses to reject it. The "sin of ignorance" is easily forgivable and really isn't a thing for God. He'll still reach out and make Himself known in ways the person can understand and accept.
     We are saved by the charity of God through belief by means of Jesus Christ. God has given this charity to every human being whether they know it or not, and it only takes some kind of recognition that there is something there to make use of in order to make use of it.