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That’s not suprising as I am giving you in a few sentences what takes years to learn from Aquinas.I’m not seeing it.
And this is where you have gone off the rails though half of what you opine is correct.Faith is an act that arises out of Charity. So the act of Faith which comes from Charity must be a greater act of the intellect…
Look up the difference between formed and formless faith.
Charity “informs” faith but is not part of the definition of faith itself.
Faith is primarily an intellectual virtue, charity primarily a volitional virtue.
Charity therefore makes faith more personally meritorious but adds nothing further to the objective certitude of its intellectual content.
The certitude that is strengthened is purely subjective, that is the strength by which an individual internally adheres to the content of faith… That has no useful objective, apologetic purpose for others except indirectly (their example).
“Proof” is all about objectivity and how that truth can coerce the intellects of others.
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