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THE WORDS HAVE NOT CHANGED. YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF THEM HAS.   ⬥   FAITH IS NOT A FEELING. IT IS A COMMITMENT THE BODY RESTS UPON.   ⬥   NEW: PREPOSITIONS — THE SMALL WORDS THAT CHANGE EVERYTHING.   ⬥   SAMSON'S STRENGTH WAS NEVER IN HIS HAIR. THE TEXT SAYS SO PLAINLY.   ⬥   RECOVERED MEANING IS NOT RADICAL. DISTORTED MEANING IS.
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Vol. I  ·  No. 4  ·  Current Dispensation The Sole Sovereign Truth Updated: July 30, 2026

You already know the words. Here is what they actually mean.

⬥ Featured Definition — Current Edition

Faith

n.  /  πίστις (pistis)  ·  אֱמוּנָה (emunah)

Not a feeling. Not optimism. Not belief without evidence. The question is not whether you trust — it is whether your trust moves you.

Faith, in the tradition from which it is drawn, was never a synonym for hope or sentiment. The Greek πίστις and the Hebrew אֱמוּנָה converge on one operational idea: reliable action based on demonstrated trustworthiness. A bridge engineer who walks across his own structure is exercising faith. A man who claims to trust the bridge but will not cross it is exercising nothing.

Mountain at dawn
Creation bears witness. The physical world was organized to point toward its Maker.
New Entries — Believe, Belief & Spirit
B
Believev. / πιστεύω (pisteuō)

The verb form. An act. A movement of the will. Even the demons pisteuō — and it profits them nothing, because it never becomes action. James 2:19 is the proof.

Verb · volitional trust-act · Contrast: pistis (noun)
S
Spiritn. / רוּחַ · πνεῦμα

Wind. Breath. Animating force. Not a feeling — something that rushes, departs, and moves on divine initiative. Never stored in objects. Including hair.

Wind · breath · sovereign agent · See: Samson
Bee on flower — pollination
Pollination — One mechanism the Director chose. The physical world organized to sustain what it was made to sustain.
Valley at dawn
⬩ Connective Tissue — Below

The small words carry the weight. By, through, in, from — one preposition misread changes who holds first cause.

Connective Tissue Small Words. Enormous Consequences.

English translations collapse dozens of distinct Greek prepositions into a handful of common words — by, through, in, from, of. Each original word carries a specific relational direction. When these distinctions vanish, verses that name God as first cause become verses that name Jesus — and verses about the origin of faith point to human effort rather than divine initiation.

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by
ek / ἐκ out of · origin
dia / διά through · channel
hupo / ὑπό under · agent
12 verses
through
dia / διά instrument
en / ἐν by means of
18 verses
in
en / ἐν within · among
eis / εἰς into · toward
9 verses
from
ek / ἐκ out of · source
apo / ἀπό away from
14 verses
of
ek / ἐκ belonging to
genitive possession
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