{"id":6164,"date":"2014-02-11T08:47:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T12:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/euangelion\/?p=6164"},"modified":"2014-02-11T11:26:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T15:26:16","slug":"the-four-most-important-new-testament-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/euangelion\/2014\/02\/the-four-most-important-new-testament-words\/","title":{"rendered":"The Four Most Important New Testament Words?"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>What if I told you that the Paul provides the key themes of the New Testament in his letter to the Galatians by means of a specific grammatical structure?<\/p>\n<p>In Galatians, four times Paul modifies an abstract noun with the genitive\u00a0<em>Christos<\/em>. Notice the list we end up with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Grace<\/strong> of the Messiah (1:6)<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Gospel<\/strong> of the Messiah (1:7)<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Revelation<\/strong> of the Messiah (1:12)<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Faith<\/strong> of the Messiah (2:15-16; 3:22)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Grace, Gospel, Revelation, and Faith. Are there four more important words in the New Testament?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m thinking about whether these four structures are in parallel and should be seen in relationship to each other Paul\u2019s argument. If so does that affect the way we should interpret any particular one. Perhaps most interesting in light of the current field of Paul study is what would the connection mean, if anything, for how we understand <em>pistis christou, <\/em>\u201cthe faith of Christ\u201d in Galatians? Since, as Doug Moo notes in his recent <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0801027543\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0801027543&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=euangelion04-20\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Galatians<\/a><\/strong><\/em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"https:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=euangelion04-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0801027543\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\">\u00a0commentary, the literary context is \u201cthe single most important factor in deciding the meaning of the (proposed) faith-of-Christ phrases\u201d (45).<\/p>\n<p>Would anyone, especially those who have worked on this problem, wish to chime in?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if I told you that the Paul provides the key themes of the New Testament in his letter to the Galatians by means of a specific grammatical structure? In Galatians, four times Paul modifies an abstract noun with the genitive\u00a0Christos. 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