Questions: Religion & Spirituality

An unbeliever means they had to at-least once believed to be an unbeliever. A non-believer could be someone who doesn't currently believe but it was not required that they once believed. An unbeliever is never someone who never believed but rather at-least once believed. If you never believed, you are a non-believer, not an unbeliever. It is true that both result in not believing currently but one indicates they had once or more believed and the other indicates they just don't believed. It is better to refer to people who never believed as non-believers and people who used to believe but no longer believe as unbelievers.

Yes, I did my homework. You may say but an unsaved person could have never been saved. Wrong. It is a non saved person or person not saved if they were never saved, not unsaved. They call them unsaved but they are not unsaved unless they were once saved and no longer saved.

Think about a screw. If you unscrew a screw, that screw had to have once been screwed. Maybe you didn't screw the screw but the screw had to have been screwed before it can be unscrewed. There are things you can do with a screw that doesn't involved unscrewing. You can paint the screw and that is still being non screwed.

In the case of salvation or belief. You're the person experiencing or failing to experience one or both of them so it's your personal experience. If you never believed, then you can't be an unbeliever. An unbeliever means they took off their belief. Yes, you may can believe again. A non-believer is somebody who never believed.

I hope you understand these differences.