Tag: faith vs faithfulness
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Faith as Trust, Not Pledge part 3: Faith works better
This third installment draws upon historic, systematic, and practical theology to demonstrate that “faith” is not only a fine translation of pistis; it’s actually much more useful translation than “allegiance” or “faithfulness.”
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Faith as Trust, Not Pledge pt. 2: Have we clarified the gospel yet?
The second post in this series takes a critical look at the consequences of redefining faith as faithfulness or allegiance for gospel clarity.
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Faith as Trust — not Pledge, part 1: Faith is obsolete now?
Part one of a three-part series on the trend towards redefining “faith” in Scripture as “faithfulness” or “allegiance.” In this post, I begin by laying out my concerns, and showing why these simply aren’t great glosses for pistis-words.
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