Not according to the dictionary, and not according to the Bible. Why do you use O.T. examples out of context. Israel was a saved nation. They were God's chosen people. Their act of walking around the walls of Jericho can only be likened to an act of obedience in the Christian walk and nothing more. If they had disobeyed they in no way would lose their salvation spiritually only their lives physically. They would have been defeated by the Caannanites. Your examples are taken entirely out of context.</font>[/QUOTE]Why do I use OT examples? I didn't use them, God did. He used them in Heb 11. The last time I checked, Hebrews was in the New Testament.Originally posted by mman:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by DHK:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by mman:
The walls of Jericho fell by faith, not by works.
Faith is belief plus action according to Heb 11.
Faith is not belief alone.
You're still going to the dictionary to define faith. Why don't you let God do that.
Please use your definition of faith and show how the walls of Jericho fell by faith.
</font>[/QUOTE]Let's get things straight Mann.
The Bible speaks of justification by faith:
Romans 5:1 Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
--This is in reference to salvation.
The Bible also speaks of the Christian walk of faith:
2 Corinthians 5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight
--The believer, after he is saved, walks by faith. His entire life is a life of obedience to Christ as he walks in faith.
These two things have nothing to do with each other.
Now choose which one you want to discuss: one topic or the other; not both. If you are going to confuse these two topics together then you are like the ones that Peter admonished:
2 Peter 3:16 As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
DHK