Monday, February 06, 2006

Mat 15:28 O woman, great [is] your faith: be it to you even as you will.

Christs's teachings describe the proper flow from the spirit through the mind, body, and emotions. The question is: what role does faith play? Here and elsewhere, Christ makes faith sound like the source of all power. You power to control the physical world and get what you want comes directly from the quality of your faith and confidence. In this case, confidence that God will provide what you need.

In Greek, the phrase reads much like the English. "Faith" is from pistis, which means the conviction of the truth of something. The only slight difference is that "be it" is from ginomai, which means "to become" and "to come into existence." "Will" is from thelo , which means "to be resolved to a purpose" and "to desire."