[stfassisi]

If a person claims to not know God, or know about Him, then he cannot have the Spirit of God in him

What is it that leads people like this that eventially accept Christ as God if they can't have the Spirit of God in them?

Your analysis leaves everyone still searching with doubts automatically condemned

[Belteshazzar]

stfassisi wrote:
“Your analysis leaves everyone still searching with doubts automatically condemned.”

OK, you didn’t like John on this very point, how about Jesus? “He who believes in Him (Christ) is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.” (John 3:18-19)

The default position for all of us is condemnation, that is the reality of the fall into sin. On this I will trust St. John before Thomas Aquinas.

[RnMomof7]

What is it that leads people like this that eventially accept Christ as God if they can't have the Spirit of God in them?

How did the apostles come to Christ? They did not have the indwelling Holy Spirit unto Pentecost..