There is no scriptural support to say a lost man cannot believe. He cannot break free of his bonds to sin. But he is still able to believe or not believe.
I'm not sure how Lazurus, a depiction of the Resurrection, has to do with what we are talking about.
Paul told the Philippian Jailer, "Believe"--Verb;imperative--"And then you shall be saved." You seem to think he said, "If you find yourself believing then you can be assured that you have been saved."
Do you see how preposterous that statement is? A lost man is, by definition, an unbeliever. Yet you say an unbeliever believes. That is an oxymoron of the first order.
You can keep saying the same thing over and over and it will not make it true. The Scriptures are very clear on the subject. You are looking at them through the lens of calvinism. Set aside your presuppositions for on conversation.
The very moment an unbeliever believes, they become a believer. Belief is trusting in something/someone. If one has belief, they have faith. Faith is a fruit of the Spirit, per Galatians 5:22.
So, Satan's lies are more powerful than God's Truths?
John 11 23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise again.”
24 Martha said to Him, “I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day.”
25 Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?
Your calvinism makes you interpret this as a born again experience...context says otherwise. Get rid of the glasses, bro.
I never said that, so stop with these attacks, okay?
It’s only when God works and overcomes their blindness due to Satan can they see and believe. Jesus said the strong man must be bound up and then his house can be plundered. God binds up Satan, casts him out and now lives in us.
It shows how God gives life to the dead unilaterally. Jesus said He quickens, makes alive, whomever He wills.[John 5:21]
Okay, I agree. I read an article from April, 2018, when Alliance for the unreached said that 3.2 billion ppl have not heard the gospel. How can those who died never hearing it have believed in God?
Wayne Peterson of the ‘Alliance for the Unreached’ told CBN news “Out of the seven billion people on planet Earth, I think it’s 3.2 billion people, which is about 40 percent of the population, have no opportunity to hear the gospel where they live, in their location.
Rom 1:16
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.
Rom 1:17
For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, “The righteous shall live by faith.”
Rom 1:18
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth.
Rom 1:19 For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.