[HarleyD]

Doesn’t God give everyone a measure of faith?

No. Faith is given to us.

Rom_10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

Some are given more faith than others.

1Co_12:9 To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;

Unbelievers do not have faith.

2Th_3:2 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men: for all men have not faith.

[Zuriel]

When I said: “Doesn’t God give everyone a measure of faith?”, I was referring to Romans 12:3.

So, if it is directed to those that have already received the gospel, then Romans (as well as the rest of the epistles) should be read in that context.

**Unbelievers do not have faith.**

Even believers can be told that they have no faith, as the Lord told his faithless disciples, at times of their testing.

God puts a measure of faith in a person, but free will can reject it. From the beginning, calling on the name of the Lord, is a desire that has been passed along through all generations. The Greeks had the altar “TO THE UNKNOWN GOD”, showing the desire to seek some sort of God. But, just as the seed that falls on the wayside is plucked up by the birds, so does the devil steal faith from souls, with his many devices.