depicts a context in which people can move from unbelief to faith. Jesus may say that his opponents do not belong to his sheep, yet he continues to call them to faith, which means that their unbelief need not be final (10:26, 38). While recognizing human blindness, Jesus urges people to believe in the light while they have opportunity to do so (12:36). The problem with understanding faith in exclusively human terms is that it does not deal adequately with the depth of human resistance to God or with