Oh, hello there. My name is Father Gregory Pine, and I am

Dominican friar of the province of St. Joseph, and this is Pines of the

Quines. In this episode I'd like to talk about faith. He looks left to

remember exactly what it is that he is describing even

though this is his 17th attempt at the same video. Wow great work chief.

Okay so I want to talk about faith. Specifically, I want to talk about the virtue of faith

and the certainty born of the virtue of faith.

Because seeing from a certain vantage,

it's kind of crazy.

Okay, from our vantage from the vantage of a believer, you're like, yeah, I believe, I am certain and

confident of that, nothing's gonna change my mind, so what's up? But from the vantage of a non-believer, it's like you guys are crazy, right? So you hold to this thing, which isn't, you know, terribly obvious to us, and it doesn't, you know, submit to verification or falsification it's just

assertion or so it seems to us so what's the deal what gives so I think that

the Apostle Peter I don't think that I know that the Apostle Peter, I don't think that, I know that. The Apostle Peter tells us to give

reason for our hope and it's part of our responsibility to inform ourselves, you know, in light of

our ability and our state in life so as to engage with some of this

argumentation and not so much as an explanation but as a kind of clarification of the reasons for which we believe.

So let's go for it.

Okay, so faith is a strange mental act. Okay, so you got different mental acts available to you as a human being.

You got doubt where your mind is suspended between two different positions.

You've got suspicion where you're like, I think it's this one.

Not really sure.

You've got opinion where you're like, yeah, it's this one.

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