Jesus' faith or ours?

[Veritas]

AVBunyan wrote:
The issue is who does the justifying - Only God can justify - You may have faith in Christ but your faith cannot justify. How can your "great" faith make you righteous? Only God can do such a miraculous work!!! Praise his name.

Point taken. This must be what is mentioned in Hebrews:

Then he (Christ) said, "Here I am, I have come to do your will (God's)." He (Jesus) sets aside the first (sacrifices and and burnt offerings) to establish the second (Jesus' sacrifice). And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Hebrews 10:9-10 (NIV) (I added paranthesis for clarification)

xicali, I don't know why I didn't figure out your link at first but now I just realized that if you hover your mouse over the words you get their definition. Cool.

Anyways, now that I know that I'm trying to figure out the significance of "genitive" nouns.

Because the noun "faith" right before "Jesus Christ" is genetive.

"Jesus Christ" is listed as genetive too.

I looked up "genetive" and it said this: marks a noun as being the possessor of another noun.

So which nouns are these word's possessing?

 

[Jeff Mills]

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 3:16

So we are believing in Him, but I would say that God is the reason we do believe.

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faithâ€â€and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God Ephesians 2:8 (And this is even the NIV!)

So, theoretically, whether the verse reads "faith of" or "faith in" I know that even if I have faith in Jesus, it's because of God and not my own doing.

I take it this is your answer for AV Bunyan!!! I was just about to post the same! :D

 

[xicali]

xicali, I don't know why I didn't figure out your link at first but now I just realized that if you hover your mouse over the words you get their definition. Cool.

Blessed Veritas,

when you hover your mouse over the word did you click on the word in question? Than click on "Strongs" and will take you further on yet to another definition help. This is the link again Here.

 

[Jeff Mills]

Blessed Veritas,

when you hover your mouse over the word did you click on the word in question? Than click on "Strongs" and will take you further on yet to another definition help. This is the link again Here.

Wow! Thank you xicali. This will also help me here on the mission field. Many blessings. Jeff

 

[xicali]

You're more than welcome Jeff...
and I declare angels at your service.

 

[jgredline]

Bump...a great topic to look at in more detail.