A new book by Matthew Wong
The original word was dangerous. Soldiers used it when they trusted a commander with their lives. Merchants used it to seal a contract they couldn’t walk away from.
It meant staking everything you have and everything you are. Then it entered English, became the most important word in Christianity, and lost everything that made it dangerous.
This book traces the damage.
For two thousand years, the most important word in Christianity has been mistranslated.
Not a footnote. Not a marginal passage. The word that decides what it means to “believe in Jesus.”
The mistranslation has been sitting in plain sight the entire time. Scholars with Greek lexicons can see it. The truth was hidden from the person in the pew.
The version you were handed is not the version the Bible actually contains.Early readers
“A rare and necessary book. It will challenge you. It will clarify you.”Braam Botha Senior Pastor, Berwick Church of Christ
“Timely and hugely relevant. Capturing the essence of faith is critical and Matthew navigates this with clarity.”Bishop Dr Paul Barker Anglican Diocese of Melbourne
Follows pistis from its street-level Greek through Latin fides, into English “belief,” and shows exactly where the meaning was lost.
Reads key passages with the original word restored. The verses everyone knows, read differently. Sometimes alarmingly.
No new theology. No new denomination. No reformation. The Greek still says what it always said. You just needed someone to tell you the truth.
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No. The book is a word study, an argument about what a Greek word actually meant and how centuries of translation distorted it. If you’re curious about where the central claim of Christianity came from and whether English does it justice, you need this book. If you’ve walked away from Christianity because of the version you were handed, you need this book.
None, formally. No Bible school. No denomination. The book is a popular-level word study grounded in standard academic lexicons (BDAG, Thayer’s, BDB) and peer-reviewed scholarship from Carson, France, Teresa Morgan, Matthew Bates, N.T. Wright, and the Oxyrhynchus papyri. The citations are in the back. The argument stands on its sources, not on the author’s title.
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