[Uncle Chip]

You’re skirting the issue and you know it. Either 1) God give you your faith or 2) you generate it from hearing God’s word. You can pick door #1 or door #2 but there isn’t a door #3.

And what is wrong with door #3 --- Romans 10:17: "Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God"

Show me from the scriptures where one is born again before he hears the word of God???

[HarleyD]

Show me from the scriptures where one is born again before he hears the word of God???

Act 16:14 And a certain woman named Lydia heard us, a seller of purple of the city of Thyatira, who worshiped God; whose heart the Lord opened, so that she attended to the things which were spoken by Paul.

Unless God opens up our hearts like Lydia, we cannot attended to the things that are of God.