[B-Greek] faith and faithfulness
Minton, Ron
rminton at bible.edu
Fri Apr 8 13:02:43 EDT 2005
Only the context can make this clear. The subjective/objective gen.
occurs with nouns of action. Most of your passages are likely objective
gen., the believer's faith, not Jesus'.
Ron Minton
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Subject: [B-Greek] faith and faithfulness
I have this question regarding a note in the NET
Bible:
"faith in Jesus Christ." A decision is difficult here.
Though traditionally translated "faith in Jesus
Christ," an increasing number of NT scholars are
arguing that PISTIS CRISTOU and similar phrases in
Paul (Rom 3:22, 26; Gal 2:16, 20; 3:22; Eph 3:12; Phil
3:9) involve a subjective genitive and mean "Christ's
faith" or "Christ's faithfulness"...(from Gal. 2:15)
This note is most confusing to me, probably because
I'm understanding it based on the English expressions.
I may have "faith" in someone or something, but that
would not have any bearing on whether or not I am a
"faithful" person. To say Christ has "faith" does not
seem to me to say anything about Christ's
faithfulness, and this note seems to use these
expressions interchangeably. Any help would be
appreciated.
Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas
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