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May 21, 2023
This definition is properly exclusive of Satan, as he does not achieve any hoped-for good.
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A proper definition of faith would recognize that Satan does not have it, as he is not saved.
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May 20, 2023
hupostasis/</ref> sometimes translated as assurance but is more precisely understood as a term for reality rather than personal conviction. "Confident achievement" is a modern rendition of that concept. Scholar Robert G. Hoerber writes in reference to
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→the second clause above: Many blind people existed throughout human history, and "unseen" does not negate their awareness. The respected ESV translation uses the word "unseen" only three times in the entire Bible (nowhere in the Gospels,
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→the second clause above: The term "unseen" is simply too physical, and too narrow to capture the full meaning here. Unseen is merely one biological sense, when the true meaning is unlimited as infinity embodies.
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→the first clause above: sometimes translated as assurance but is more precisely understood as a term for reality rather than personal conviction
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→the first clause above
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→Combining the clauses
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→the first clause above
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→the first clause above
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→Combining the clauses
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Realizing the infinite, faith is confident achievement of hoped-for good.
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→the first clause above: implied concept here should be translated as "good:" not merely "things" or "what"
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"Faith" is used 296 times in the New Testament (ESV translation), most often in the Letter to the Romans (40) and a close second in the Epistle to the Hebrews (38).
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Biblehub oddly omits the negative represented by οὐ
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renders ἐλπιζομένων (elpizomenōn) as hope rather than imputing a concept of good.
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→the second clause above: There is no punctuation or English-style word ordering in the original Greek, and the second clause should be placed at the beginning: "Realizing the infinite, ...."
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→flaws in above translations: The full meaning of the second clause in Hebrews 11:1 is therefore this: "realizing the infinite."
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Meanwhile, "οὐ βλεπομένων" is typically translated narrowly as "unseen" or "not seen," but it should be given a more powerful translation in this context to capture the full meaning: "the infinite."
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→flaws in above translations
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A better translation here would be as "recognize" or "realize", rather than "proof".
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a start, will improve
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a start, will improve
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