DFAITH 1-2
Faith today is
taken to mean no more
than the thought that a thing is so
because it is
something the church teaches,
and because it is not evident to the
intellect.
For we are told, "Believe and do not doubt."
If we reply, "I
do not understand,"
we are told that that is why it should be believed.
Faith
today is therefore a faith in the unknown
and may be termed a blind
faith.
Moreover, because it is one person’s assertion
received by
another,
it is an inherited faith.
We will see in what follows
that that
is not a spiritual faith.
Real faith is nothing else
than an acknowledgment that a thing is so
because it is true.
For someone who possesses a real faith
thinks and
says,
"This is true. Therefore I believe it."
For faith is a faith in
the truth,
and truth is the object of faith.
DFAITH 12
If someone thinks to himself or says to another,
"Who is capable
of an
internal acknowledgment of truth
so as to have faith in it? I am not,"
I
say to him,
"This is how:
Refrain from evils as being sins
and turn to
the Lord,
and you will have as much as you desire."
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DLIFE = The Doctrine of Faith
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