Re: What is good about faith?
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Trying to encapsulate faith according to Aquinas he states that Faith is that which leads one to the Good which is found through the True. In this the Intellect through Thinking finds the True and is led to God.
Accordingly, one does not and cannot have "belief or faith" in a falsehood nor does one state that one "wants something" and then has "faith" that this something will. happen.
The road to the "Good " and the "True" is an act of the Intellect which is carried through "Faith". In this respect "Faith" is an act of Knowledge.
The fact that the "man on the street" has "faith" that a desired event will come about only shows that all of us are still learning in order to reach the "Good" and the "True". Bumps on the road ,if you will, to that in which All Men seek on the road to the "Good".
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