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Originally Posted by Rico
Yeah, but which comes first, faith or obedience? Obedience is an act of faith, but can it be said that faith is an act of obedience?
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I think, scripturally, that faith is only faith if there is obedience following. Otherwise, it's dead, right?
We are all given a measure of faith, and I do believe that "seed" (if you will) is in us until a day when we have to choose to activate it. It is activiated by obedience. But, if obedience does not result, at some point in our life that seed of faith dies, as James says.
So, I've come to believe that God does not consider faith "faith" until there is some sort of action evidenced. What He considers it to be before that action, I have yet to learn.