to live by faith even as in the first case I receive life through faith in

His name.

A.  You remember our conversation concerning the nature of faith?  Well, I

have a difficulty in accepting your presentation owing to the continual use

of the word 'heart' in connection with saving faith.  Your way of looking at

it savours too much of the 'head'.

B.

Let us have some of the passages which show this continual use.

A.  'If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe

in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness' (Rom. 10:9,10).

B.  That is one passage, certainly, and must be considered, but let us have

the others before we commence our examination.

A.  (After a pause).  I do not seem to be able to discover the other

passages.  Yet I am sure there are many.

B.  Perhaps the word translated 'heart' occurs elsewhere under another

A.  No, that is not so, for Young's Concordance Index says kardia, heart, 158

occurrences, and that it is not translated in any other way.

B.  It looks as though you have imagined that there were many such passages,

partly because of your earlier conceptions as to 'historic faith', etc.  The

truth is that this passage quoted from Romans 10 is the only one which makes

the positive statement.  I can help you to add two more if we include the

negative point of view.  Hebrews 3:12 speaks of an 'evil heart of unbelief',

and the Lord rebuked His disciples saying, 'O fools, and slow of heart to

believe' (Luke 24:25).  But these hardly warrant your statement as to

'continual use'.  You will remember that Romans 10:9,10 is contextually

associated, in verses 14 to 17, not so much with a miraculous interposition

of God, but with such arguments as:

'How shall they believe in Him of Whom they have not heard?

And how

shall they hear without a preacher?' (Rom. 10:14).

A.  What is your object in taking away the emphasis upon the heart, and

transferring it to the head?

B.  That is hardly a fair question.  You have read the only passage that

there is in the New Testament which speaks of believing with the heart, and

the context immediately speaks of the necessity of hearing and preaching in

order to make faith possible.  Without being uncharitable I would suggest

that you are labouring under the influence of a misunderstanding.

A.  What misunderstanding?

I do not want to rest on unscriptural

B.  Well, I think I should be right if I said that in your way of thinking

the 'heart' is set in contrast with the 'head'.