Stilwell, Phil: ◉ The Pistis Proof Burden: Hebrews 11:1, Greek Semantic Range, and the Illicit Upgrade from Assurance to Evidence

Hebrews 11:1 is often quoted as though it supplies a decisive definition of faith: faith is "substance," "assurance," "conviction," or even "evidence" of unseen realities. This paper argues that none of those renderings can bear the epistemic load often placed on them. The problem is not that the Greek terms are meaningless or that Hebrews is intellectually crude. The problem is the apologetic upgrade by which an exhortative description of faithful endurance is treated as public proof of the rea