Wednesday, November 15, 2023

"the faith OF Jesus Christ"

 *Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.   Galatians 2:16  KJV

I don't believe "of Jesus" and "of Christ" means Jesus' or Christ's faith. The names "Jesus" and "Christ" are in the genitive case, so "of" is added, which is often descriptive or speaks of possession, but it has a lot of other usages, like a "bucket of balls": "of balls" is the content of the bucket. So "faith of Jesus [or Christ]" could be the content of faith. But even if "faith of Jesus [or Christ]" was Christ's faith, how does that save us, unless it means his faithfulness in going to the cross? Yet we still have to believe, as Galatians 2:16 says: even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith of Christ. That clearly says we believe in order to be justified.



*This quote is from the King James Version, which translates it "of Christ," while the New King James translates it "in Christ": Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law but by faith in Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Christ Jesus, that we might be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law; for by the works of the law no flesh shall be justified. Galatians 2:16

No comments:

Post a Comment