There is another important understanding from Scripture that one must have as it relates to unbelievers. They are dead in their sins!
Scripture bears this out very clearly:
Ephesians 2:1-3
1 And you He made alive, who were dead in trespasses and sins, 2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
BEFORE a person is saved they are dead in their sins. They are walking according to the course of this world. They are by nature children of God's wrath. Paul says to believers you were by nature children of wrath just as the others.
Col 2:13
13 And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses,
Until a person accepts Christ they have NOT had all of their trespasses forgiven, and they are still dead in their sins.
To say anything else is to contradict the Scripture. This is not a hermeneutical one interpretation verses another issue. It's a critical doctrinal understanding.
Jesus made it incredibly clear:
John 3:18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
You cannot be considered "Condemned" by God and at the same time have any type of reconciliation with God.
Condemnation and Reconciliation with God cannot exist simultaneously. To say it does makes no sense whatsoever in light of the Scriptures.
