What is a believer?

A believer is one who believes, that is, one who has faith in something or someone. James 2:20-22 states that faith can be legitimate (faith in what is true), illegitimate (faith in what is not true), or feigned (pretended faith). However, there is something we need to understand as a fundamental axiom -"a true principle". Believing is not a choice nor is it something a person can, or does, choose to do. Faith is something a person either has or does not have. It may be received through education or experience.. It may also develop over time as a result of the accumulation of evidence, or be received in a testimony as evidence congeals in the consciousness, or, as we shall see, be given by God.. We experience many things, many beliefs in life. Some knowledge, some belief is universal, some cultural, some religious.. But the most crucial and essential field of faith is the kind that we experience in our walk with God -a spiritual, saving faith..

1 Corinthians 15:1 speaks of how we are saved through our belief and faith in the gospel.. And in Romans 1:16 states "I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for Jew, then for Gentile" This good news is the touchstone of saving faith. Like all faith, it is not chosen. But unlike all other species of faith, this faith, faith in the evangel, saving faith, is not arrived at by education, or instruction. It doesn’t develop over time through study of the Scriptures nor is it arrived at by induction or deduction. Saving faith is given by God, gratuitously..Ephisians 2:8 states "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith -and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God"

What happens then, to those people who are ignorant to the Gospel?
Well, we cannot confirm what will happen to such nor can we judge their fates.. However, some people suggest that God will not hold people accountable for something they are ignorant or have no knowledge of.. And here's where we Christians play a part -to spread the gospel to non-believers..Nevertheless, one thing to be sure of is that Christ is the only way to salvation and the issue for which everyone will stand before God relates primarily to our sin, which causes us to be in conflict with God's holiness.. God knows each individual's heart and will judge fairly and accordingly and in a manner consistent with both holiness and love..

In conclusion,

Ephesians 4:1-6

I am entreating you, then, I, the prisoner in the Lord, to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called, with all humility and meekness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit with the tie of peace: one body and one spirit, according as you were called also with one expectation of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, Who is over all and through all and in all.