RE: How do I deal with the belief that maybe... Just maybe... God exists and I'm...
October 14, 2022 at 12:48 am
(October 12, 2022 at 3:16 pm)Angrboda Wrote:(October 12, 2022 at 1:11 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Just to be absolutely clear, I did specify intellectual belief because this is a case of semantic ambiguity. Kind of like faith, in theology, is generally understood to imply some level of trust.
Jesus didn't make that distinction so this is just pointless pettifoggery.
The Greek word for "belief" there had connotations of trust, reliability, and being persuaded by argument.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistis
So it normally looks to me as if "believe in Jesus" means to trust him or to be convinced that what he's saying is true.
Do you know of any texts in which this reading is untenable? For example, a text in which the only reasonable interpretation of πιστεύεις is belief in the existence of something?