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1 | Define Faith. | Heb 11:1 | CDBJ | 34680 | ||
Lionstrong, I am not quite sure what you are driving at but faith in and of it's self doesn't mean anything, it's the object of faith that is important. You could have the strongest faith in the world but if the object if faulty you are in big trouble. Do you remember the challenger tragedy, when all those young brave individuals were getting on the space shuttle; they were all smiling and laughing and had the greatest amount of faith in that space craft, but it was faulty and ended up killing all of them. Was the problem with their faith or the object? The same is true Biblically speaking with regards to believers in Jesus Christ. John 20:29 Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed. That verse answers both sides of your question. Do you remember the old adage, seeing is believing well that is true but the words (have believed) in the Greek is the aorist, active, nominative participle of the verb PISTEUSANTES which in effect is saying that believing is seeing because the action of the aorist participle always precedes the action of the main verb. |
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2 | Define Faith. | Heb 11:1 | Love Fountain | 34726 | ||
Dear CDBJ, Thank you for the word study. You said," pisteusantes ", John 20:29 pisteúsantes 4100 have believed. (Interlinear Transliterated Bible. Copyright (c) 1994 by Biblesoft) NT:4100 pisteuo (pist-yoo'-o); from NT:4102; to have faith (in, upon, or with respect to, a person or thing), i.e. credit; by implication, to entrust (especially one's spiritual well-being to Christ): KJV - believe (-r), commit (to trust), put in trust with. (Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright (c) 1994, Biblesoft and International Bible Translators, Inc.) NT:4102 pistis (pis'-tis); from NT:3982; persuasion, i.e. credence; moral conviction (of religious truth, or the truthfulness of God or a religious teacher), especially reliance upon Christ for salvation; abstractly, constancy in such profession; by extension, the system of religious (Gospel) truth itself: KJV - assurance, belief, believe, faith, fidelity. (Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright (c) 1994, Biblesoft and International Bible Translators, Inc.) NT:3982 peitho (pi'-tho); a primary verb; to convince (by argument, true or false); by analogy, to pacify or conciliate (by other fair means); reflexively or passively, to assent (to evidence or authority), to rely (by inward certainty): KJV - agree, assure, believe, have confidence, be (wax) conflent, make friend, obey, persuade, trust, yield. (Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance with Expanded Greek-Hebrew Dictionary. Copyright (c) 1994, Biblesoft and International Bible Bless you, Love Fountain |
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