Believing in God and believing in Christ

“Is there any sense—even if it were possible—in bringing man first to a belief in God, as a condition of bringing him to belief in Jesus Christ? Would not this imply that Jesus did not come to the ungodly after all?”

—Gerhard Ebeling, Theology and Proclamation: A Discussion with Rudolf Bultmann (London: Collins, 1966), p. 35.