Does First Peter 321 teach that we are saved by our baptism?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

Well, hi, I'm Bill Meyer along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez.

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question at questions at core Christianity.com. First up today, let's go to Phyllis, who's calling

in from Arkansas. Phyllis, what's your question for Adriel? Yes, sir.

I was reading in Joshua chapter 7, and Aiken stole some things when they were out doing the thing.

And God had them come in by family and then by household, and he narrowed it down to the guilty person.

By going through a lot of stuff, why didn't he just, since he already knew, just point out who did it?

And, I mean, I've got some ideas on my own that I wrote down, but I was wondering, what else could you add to that?

Why didn't he go through all that instead of just pointing out to Joshua who did it?

Yeah. Yeah, so let me just give some context. I mean, this is coming, you know, right after the fall of Jericho.

So, I mean, that's a story that most people are, or many Christians might be more familiar with in Joshua chapter 6.

The fall of Jericho, and one of the things that God warned his people in Joshua chapter 6, verse 18, he says,

but you keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, less when

you have devoted them, you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing

for destruction and bring trouble upon it. And so you had the fall of Jericho, but what ended up

happening is people there in Israel did not heed the

the exhortation there in Joshua chapter 6, verse 18. You had one individual named Aiken

who did steal some things, items that had some value, and he hid them away in his tent.

And as a result of that, you these these things devoted for destruction brought into

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