Very few believe everything the Holy Spirit recorded in the Bible. This especially relates to faith. Many people seem to live forever in their waking concrete conscious and never seem aware of their unconscious, or their abstract spirit deep within. The former they generally think they control, but the latter is a mystery of the first order and little considered. Count how many times Jesus says over and over, ask and it shall be given. Ask anything of the Father and He will give it you, etc., on and on it seems. Jesus offers no suggestion of limits and in case one were to consider one Jesus cuts it off by saying that if anyone had enough faith they could move a mountain.
On the other hand, once and one time only, Paul, not Jesus, Paul, says God told him His grace was sufficient. Against so many this is very often the belief preferred. And so the power of Jesus, of God, is limited, stopped entirely even. If one cannot shake out entirely the belief in Christ, the next best thing is to cut off the power of Christ. While the lips are very close the heart is far from Jesus, as it is said.
On top of this, look at the last verses in John when Jesus tells Peter to mind his own business. This is when Jesus says that if He told this man (John) what has that to do with you (Peter). Is this not the same with Paul? What God tells Paul, what has that to do with us? The promises of Jesus seem so much greater to be desired, yet unbelief ignores them entirely. The churches are full of those who believe in Jesus but by limiting the power and the promises of God we are left with their unbelief that causes one to wonder if this cannot be called a Christian atheist view?
