This verse requires belief in him as the Son of God. Belief in this dual nature of Jesus is essential to salvation. The verse teaches that God's judgments are in a state of perpetually present enactment. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, and cometh not to the light, lest his works should be reproved. But he that doeth the truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest, that they have been wrought in God.
Men believe according to the secret aspirations and desires of their nature.
The question has been fully discussed in Lard's Quarterly, Vol.