speaking) precisely because it heals the breach, so to speak, between the cognitive aspects of the word’s possible meaning and the active (behavioral/practical) valence of the word. Hays remarks that he prefers “trust” over “have faith” especially because there is a tendency to read faith/belief language as a “subjective attitude of the individual believer” that could mislead readers of Paul into thinking that the apostle places his soteriological emphasis on held beliefs rather than relational trust.
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