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No, not really. Second thing, first: they don't preach peace; they preach the gospel of peace. Now, the first thing: when Paul asks the rhetorical question, "how can you hear without a preacher?" It was his own words. When he said, "how beautiful are the feet of them..." he was quoting Isaiah. Therefore, you have to understand it from Isaiah's reference, and if you don't believe he was speaking symbolically, well then....Faith comes by hearing a preacher?
Your logic could also allow the test for a preacher sent by God that they must have beautiful feet and preach peace.
But in any case, you really can't use one verse to cancel out another, and expect anyone else to take it seriously. Is that what you are doing? Are you ignoring Paul saying faith comes by hearing and you need a preacher to hear (all because you believe God was talking g literal when he said they have beautiful feet)?
I am more inclined to believe your literal belief than I am to discard Paul's word. For what it's worth, the feet in Isaiah 52 (and thus Romans 10) are that of a watchman while he is on a mountain... so do you really wantto claim that's literal? But the feet represent either the foundation of the watchman, and/or his path.
Paul goes on to make the argument they have heard and not believed, and then Paul explains not because of a preacher they have faith, but because of God they have faith. Faith is the work of God and not preaching
No he doesn't. Yes, they heard and didn't believe. But they didn't have faith. Nowhere in this chapter does Paul say they had faith and no where in Isaiah did they have faith. God sent Isaiah himself, and they did not hear him, thus they did not hear God.
Yes, we are to trust in God, not preachers. But God sends preachers and anoints them. Unfortunately, you must trust God enough to accept his messengers.
Do you?