[trebb]

Nice but useless exercise w/o a statement of the purpose. You left out 'obedience' as a partial choice - it was just as important as the faith that kept them marching for 40 years prior. I see it as a demonstration of God's faithfulness in His time.

I love the opportunity to think on various parts of the Bible that may not come up in everyday conversation - thanks for the question(s).

[LearsFool]

Thanks for the reply.

In the case of Jericho, the obedience was marching. Why was marching obedience? Because God had commanded it.

What would’ve happened if the Israelites had said, “We’re not going to march, we’re just going to have faith only”?

That’s the question the “faith only” folks refuse to answer. They’ll never answer it because the answer exposes their false teaching.

So no, I don’t think it’s a useless exercise. It exposes these false teachers, so that others can be on their guard lest their faith end up as dead as the devils’.

[LearsFool]

See? I told you they couldn't answer those two questions.

To you, the answers are so simple as to make it seem a useless exercise. That's because the gospel is simple. It's so simple, in fact, that those who reject it are easy to spot with just a couple of simple questions. (Reminds me of Matt. 21:23-27.)

And isn't that how Jesus said it would be? The preaching of the gospel would sort people into two groups: the saved and the damned. And He told us how we can know who is in which group.