seeking to describe an inner mental state as such, it would not make sense to claim that he or she has ceased to believe when they fall asleep. Clearly all of this coheres closely with the examples of settings-in-life identified by Cullmann, Vernon Neufeld, Dietmar Neufeld, and others. Indeed, this New Testament research would have shown that in these settings we may best understand believing as a disposition to respond to situations both by expressing and by “standing behind” belief-utterances in