All one has to do is look at the biblical definition of faith, and they would see that faith which comes from signs is really not faith. Because it is something you see or experience through senses. God is not calling us to this type of faith.
Hebrews 11: 1:
1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
The greek word translated seen is blepomenon. Which is translated to see, But there are other interpretations used by the greeks for this word.
d. univ. to perceive by the senses, to feel:
e. to discover by use, to know by experience:
2. metaph. to see with the mind’s eye;
so we can see Faith does not come by our senses. what we feel. Or supernatural signs and wonders. True faith comes from things we can not see, or percieve, or feel. It comes only from our hope. Our hope is in Christ and what he promised (eternal life) Anything else is not faith at all!
Hebrews 11: 1:
1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
The greek word translated seen is blepomenon. Which is translated to see, But there are other interpretations used by the greeks for this word.
d. univ. to perceive by the senses, to feel:
e. to discover by use, to know by experience:
2. metaph. to see with the mind’s eye;
so we can see Faith does not come by our senses. what we feel. Or supernatural signs and wonders. True faith comes from things we can not see, or percieve, or feel. It comes only from our hope. Our hope is in Christ and what he promised (eternal life) Anything else is not faith at all!
Therefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession. He was faithful to Him who appointed Him, as Moses also was in all His house. For He has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by just so much as the builder of the house has more honor than the house. For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. Now Moses was faithful in all His house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken later; but Christ was faithful as a Son over His house whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the boast of our hope firm until the end. Therefore, just as the Holy Spirit says,
"TODAY, IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,
DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME,
AS IN THE DAY OF TRIAL IN THE WILDERNESS,
WHERE YOUR FATHERS TRIED ME BY TESTING ME,
AND SAW MY WORKS FOR FORTY YEARS.
THEREFORE I WAS ANGRY WITH THIS GENERATION,
' AND SAID, "THEY ALWAYS GO ASTRAY IN THEIR HEART;
AND THEY DID NOT KNOW MY WAYS;"
AS I SWORE IN MY WRATH,
THEY SHALL NOT ENTER MY REST."
Take care, brethren, lest there should be in any one of you and evil, unbelieving heart, in falling away from the living God, but encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called "Today," lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin. For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our assurance firm until the end; while it is said,
"TODAY IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE,
DO NOT HARDEN YOUR HEARTS,
AS WHEN THEY PROVOKED ME."
For who provoked Him when they had heard? Indeed, did not all those who came out of Egypt led by Moses? And with whom was He angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in he wilderness? And to whom did He swear that they should not enter His rest, but to those who sere disobedient? And so we see that they were not able to enter because of unbelief.
Now you can say that they were guilty of unbelief for a lot of reasons, but the reason that is allowed for in this text is that they refused to hear His voice. The moment that the writer is signifying is the moment when God first spoke to the people from His holy mountain, the words of the first covenant, whereby they would be His people, and He would be their God. But the people answered Moses in fear that they did not want God to speak to them, lest they die. It would be okay if Moses spoke to them for God, but they could not allow themselves to believe that God would speak to them in a way that they could live.
Moses tried to talk the people out of their unbelief. But they would not listen even to Him.;
So, you call faith what you want to, but God has defined it for us, in the scriptures which you say you believe. But you do not believe, because if it does not agree with your beliefs which you already hold, then you must deny the truth which is plainly before you. You are just like those in the wilderness, who provoked God to wrath.