[B-Greek] to what extent... PISTEUW
George F Somsel
gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 21 00:09:54 EDT 2009
This has been my contention for some time. we have given the word "believe" the conception of "think to be the case" rather than a relationship of trust. This leads to many different groups issuing a "statement of faith" where they presumably set forth what they consider to be necessary to accept. I notice that there is never such a statement in the NT. If we hold to a notion of "think to be the case", then what happens if someone disagrees with one or two points? We know the result since we have seen it in the history of the church -- we have a split in the church with one group supposing their fellowship to be more "pure" than the other. This is how we end up with a splintered Christianity.
george
gfsomsel
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From: Luke Firth <luke.firth.mail at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 5:44:27 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] to what extent... PISTEUW
To what extent is there justification for any kind of idea that says
that the word PISTEUW (I believe (in), have faith, trust) has lost
much of it's Greek meaning by simply translating it as "believe"???
As the word believe in (at least Australian culture) is more of a... I
THINK (with my mind) that this happened... as opposed to... I TRUST in
this.
Wouldn't it be of much more significance to this culture to even
translate it as "trust in" - As does David H. Stern in his 'Complete
Jewish Bible'
Also as the noun PISTIS seems to be translated pretty always as a
"Faith, (trust)" word (with no evidenced translation of "belief")... -
As far as I researched...
I'm simply asking, are we doing the verb PISTEUW justice by
translating it as "I believe in" (especially noting the general
persons idea of the word 'believe' compared to the Greek understanding
of the word PISTEUW/PISTIS)
Luke.
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