I

There are some people

whose faith has never been acknowledged within God’s heart,

has never been acknowledged within God’s heart.

In other words, God does not recognize that they’re His followers,

because He does not approve of their beliefs.

For these people, regardless of how many years they have followed God,

their ideas and views have never changed.

Like the nonbelievers, they adhere to

the nonbelievers’ principles and methods for interacting with people,

and to the nonbelievers’ laws of survival and faith.

They have never accepted the word of God as their life,

never believed that God’s word is truth,

never intended on accepting God’s salvation,

and never recognized God as their God, never recognized God as their God.

II

They see believing in God as some kind of amateur hobby,

treating Him as mere spiritual sustenance;

as such, they don’t think it’s worth it

to try and understand God’s disposition or essence.

It can be said that all that corresponds to the true God

has nothing to do with them;

they are not interested, nor can they be bothered to pay heed.

This is because deep in their hearts,

there is an intense voice that is always telling them,

“God is invisible and untouchable, and does not exist, does not exist.”

They believe that trying to understand this sort of god

would not be worth their efforts,

and that in doing so they would be fooling themselves.

They believe that by merely acknowledging God with words

without taking any real stand

or investing themselves in any real actions,

they’re being pretty clever.

God views them as nonbelievers, views them as nonbelievers.

from The Word, Vol. 2. On Knowing God. How to Know God’s Disposition and the Results His Work Shall Achieve