G'day and welcome to Pints with a Quietness!

Yeah, hey, what's up? My name's Matt Fraad. If you could sit down over a pint of beer with Thomas a Quietness and ask any one question, what would it be?

In today's episode, we're going to be talking about Faith and the four good effects that it brings about.

Here we go!

Hey, welcome back to Pints with a Quietness, the show where you and I pull up a bar stool next to the angelic doctor to discuss theology and philosophy.

We live in a confusing day and age, don't you agree? I mean look at our society. Apparently we aren't sure what a man is, what a woman is, what sex is for, whether or not it's okay to kill a child in the womb, or to kill a human being if they become useless to us.

Right, a lot of confusion. And it seems to me too that there's a lot of confusion regarding the faith.

And I think a little clarity would go a long way right now. And so what I've decided to do is to go through Thomas a Quietness's commentary on the Apostles Creed over the course of 13 weeks.

And I say 13 weeks because there are 12 chapters in Thomas's commentary on the Apostles Creed plus a prologue about Faith which we'll be discussing today.

Now I do plan on having Father Gregory Pine episodes into Spurst throughout these 13 episodes, but that's what I want to do.

And just think about that, if you were able to get through those 13 episodes, you would be consuming Thomas a Quietness's commentary on the Creed, which is no small thing. That would be a really cool thing.

My hope too is that these episodes will be less than an hour long so that they won't be too cumbersome for you.

So today as I say, we want to look at the prologue, what is Faith and the four good effects that Faith brings about.

But before we do that, we should probably talk about what we mean by Faith.

Some people mischaracterize Faith as if it means believing what you know ain't so.

This is not at all what the Christian means when he talks about Faith.

When he talks about Faith, you could think of it as in some way synonymous with trust.

I trust a competent authority who is communicating something that I need to believe in that competent authority is God.

Now Faith is a supernatural gift which enables us to believe what God has revealed.

And the Catholic Church says that it is certain. Why is it certain? It says it's more certain than all human knowledge because it is founded on the very word of God who cannot lie.

So there's that competent authority who we trust.

The Catholicism continues in paragraph 157 to be sure revealed truths can seem obscure to human reason and experience.

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