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May 3, 2023 · NET and ESV render pistis Iēsou Christou at Romans 3:21,22 as “the faithfulness of Jesus Christ.” Paul Pollard (“The ‘Faith of Christ’ in Current Discussion,” Concordia Journal 23/3 [July 1997], p.213-228) has a very helpful history of the various stages of the controversy. Some of the ideas included in this brief study were ...
Mar 3, 2014 · What links all seven of these phrases together is (1) a preposition (e.g., dia, ek, en), (2) Paul’s use of pistis (faith/faithfulness), and (3) the genitive form of Christ (or some other reference to the person Jesus Christ). These occur within a prepositional phrase, usually modifying a main concept in the sentence.
May 23, 2011 · 2. Translating pistis christou as “faithfulness of Christ” is theologically attractive. The theme of “union with Christ” is a powerful one in Pauline theology, and it makes good sense of a number of passages. For example, the KJV translates Galatians 2:20 with the subjective genitive: “The life which I now live in the flesh I live by ...
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Jun 21, 2008 · Douglas Moo (New Bible Commentary) says that although the first option is a possibility, ‘the idea of Christ’s faithfulness’ (expressed with the word pistis) is not clearly attested elsewhere in Paul, while this whole section of Romans focuses again and again on the centrality of human faith in Christ for justification (see especially v 26 at the end of this paragraph). Paul, then ...
It is claimed that this "faithfulness. of Christ" is primary in the thinking of Paul, for Paul would have. expressed the Hebraic understanding of faith ('emunah) as God's. faithfulness in Jesus Christ (cf. Rom. iii 3), and the "faith of Christ" is that of a servant of God whose own faithfulness is representative.
For example, when Jesus tells the disciples, “Have pistis in God” (Mark 11:22), he is urging them to trust in God when they pray. When Paul speaks of God’s pistis (e.g., Rom 3:3), he is referring to God’s trustworthiness in fulfilling God’s promises. When Paul reminds the Corinthians “that Christ died for our sins,” he says, “so ...
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May 25, 2021 · This debate is over whether the phrase pistis Christou, which occurs eight times in Paul’s letters, means “faith in Christ” (as the ESV translates it) or “the faithfulness of Christ” (as the NET Bible translates it). The phrase on its own is ambiguous in Greek and can really mean either one. As an analogy, consider the phrase “love ...
