Pistis and Peithō - Some basic Greek to help us understand Biblical faith.
The word most often translated as "faith" in the English Biblical New Testament, is the Greek word, "πίστις", transliterated as "pistis". According to Strong’s Talking Greek and Hebrew Dictionary, "pistis" is, in turn, derived from the Greek word, "πείθω", transliterated as "peithō". Pistis, a noun, is defined by Strong's as: "...persuasion, i.e. credence; moral conviction (of religious truth, or the truthfulness of God or a religious teacher), especially reliance upon Christ
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Launching this website, by Faith
I believe that I should do this. By "this", I mean that I should launch a website that helps people understand faith, have faith, and grow in faith. I registered the domain name faithbasics.org several years ago. Between that time and now, the gnawing feeling that I need to get this done has never gone away. Oh, it has subsided or been crowded out from time to time; but it has never gone away. Almost like God was telling me, I need to do this. It was a calling. At long last,
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