 In fact, the apostle Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 4, verse 3, but if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost, right? In whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ should shine unto them. So he describes those who aren't believers as lost people, and that word lost means literally to be in the process of perishing.