RE: The Jesus Freaks Will Hate This
March 2, 2015 at 7:00 pm
(This post was last modified: March 2, 2015 at 7:01 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(March 2, 2015 at 6:39 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote:Yes, because the old testament was originally written in English you Muppet(March 2, 2015 at 2:33 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Faith is synonymous with trust, the words are interchangeable.
Not so. Religious faith is not synonymous with trust, although other denotations of faith are synonymous with "trust". The religious denotation is not one of them. Here, here's the OED. Let's read this slowly:
Quote:Definition of faith in English:
noun
1 Complete trust or confidence in someone or something:
this restores one’s faith in politicians
2 Strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.
2.1 A system of religious belief:
the Christian faith
2.2 A strongly held belief or theory:
the faith that life will expand until it fills the universe
http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/def...lish/faith
[Formatting added to ease reading -- PT]
Now, when you look at the synonyms for the highlighted religious denotation, you get:
Quote:religion, church, sect, denomination, (religious) persuasion, (religious) belief, ideology, creed, teaching, doctrine
You'll hopefully notice that none of those are the word "trust".
In other words you're equivocating two different denotation, because ... well, because you're clearly not very educated in matters English.
the Hebrew word for "trust" is translated in English as "faith".