This passage teaches that by faith we can believe the impossible . Now, not everyone has this kind of faith and we can see by what comes next in the chapter that it belongs to believers. This is the same as saving faith or the faith that is a gift from God (Eph. 2:8-9) This faith , which is a gift from God, allows us to believe that God created everything that is visible out of nothing (or the invisible) A faith that unbelievers do not have because they still need to be born again. They cannot believe God, believers can believe God and His word.