When we believe by faith, we hold things to be true that we cannot prove. So there is an incongruence between 1) what our natural faculties of reason can prove and 2) what we know to be true. By faith we become certain of more than we can prove. Sounds scandalous, right?
Faith is a comprehensive act of the whole person. It often begins in the intellect. But faith also involves a kind of revealing that surpasses the intellectual. Thus, the certitude of faith involves reasons, but it does not end with them.
All in all, faith begins and ends in an act of love by the infinite God. Eventually it involves a submission of the intellect – but [this is] a justified submission. And grace and faith are irrevocably related. We are saved by grace through faith, writes St. Paul (Eph. 2:8-9). Grace, being a free and unmerited gift of God, comes to us externally in the form of God’s revelation of himself through the Word of God, but also interiorly through the action of God within us, especially through the sacraments.
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