Unbelief vs Godlessness - What's the difference?
unbelief | godlessness | Related terms |
An absence (or rejection) of belief, especially religious belief
* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Mark VI:
* 1931 , (William Faulkner), Sanctuary , Vintage 1993, p. 35:
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 781:
Unbelief is a related term of godlessness.
As nouns the difference between unbelief and godlessness
is that unbelief is an absence (or rejection) of belief, especially religious belief while godlessness is the state of being godless.unbelief
English
Noun
(en-noun)- And he coulde there shewe no myracles butt leyd his hondes apon a feawe sicke foolke and healed them. And he merveyled at their unbelefe .
- On hands and knees he looked at the empty siding and up at the sunfilled sky with unbelief and despair.
- Soon Spinoza was regarded as the standard-bearer for unbelief , even though pervading his carefully-worded writings there is a clear notion of a divine spirit inhabiting the world, and a profound sense of wonder and reverence for mystery.
