What is faith?
Faith is a supernatural virtue which makes our mind, even though it understand not, adhere most firmly and without fear of deception to what God has revealed principally about Himself, and of His will to give Himself to us some day as the object of our perfect happiness
How can our mind not understanding what God has revealed adhere firmly thereto and without fear of deception?
By relying on the authority of God who can neither deceive nor be deceived (I. 1).
Why is it that God cannot deceive nor be deceived?
Because He is Truth itself (I. 1; IV. 8).
Next - The Catechism of the Summa -SECOND SECTION - A DETAILED SURVEY OF MAN'S RETURN TO GOD -II. OF FAITH AND ITS NATURE: OF THE CONDITIONS NECESSARY FOR AN ACT OF FAITH; OF THE "I BELIEVE" AND THE FORMULA OF AN ACT OF FAITH; OF THE SINS OPPOSED TO FAITH: VIZ., INFIDELITY, HERESY. APOSTASY, AND BLASPHEMY (B)
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