Jason Helopoulos
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Well, what is the faith here?
Jude is not speaking about having faith.
He's not speaking about expressing faith.
He's not even speaking about living in faith.
Rather, there's an article there, the.
He's speaking about the faith, our beliefs.
This, he's saying, you must contend for.
What does that mean to contend?
The Greek word very much sounds like our English word agonize.
And that's the idea.
You're agonizing over it.
You're striving for it.
You're fighting for it.
Contending for the faith.
Jude is saying, look, there are things that are worth fighting for.
There are things worth fighting.
contending for, and this is worth fighting for, this faith once delivered to the saints.
Think even back at this time in the early 60s in the church, probably when this letter was written, even then there was a corpus to the faith.
There was a core to what they believed.