Unbelief or Rebellion?!?

We are inclined to buy into the modern view that " belief" is a matter of opinion.
Whether or not you are a believer is a private matter. It has to do with your disposition and conditioning; no matters of ultimate truth are at stake. The new testament writers, including Paul, never see things that way.
They hold that God has objectively revealed Himself - not only in the distant past but now decisively in His Son, Jesus Christ, whom He raised from the dead. Not to trust him totally is not merely a question of religion preference, not a matter of "unbelief " in the modern sense, but willful disobedience, moral rebellion. It is the the sinful elevation of personal opinion and preference and priorities above the centrality of god who has with matchless kindness, forbearance and love powerfully revealed himself to us. Not to believe that kind of God and that kind of revelation owes everything to utter self-idolatry, to sinful worship of self and all its myopic opinions. It is in short flagrant rebellion.
From: A Call for Spiritual Reformation by D.A. Carson