The virtue of faith allows the intellect to recognize truths that are beyond our natural power. We receive information from the senses. These things are put into the mind and we think about them. Birds, music, the cold air, trees and everything else that we percieve comes from the senses. There are truths which are beyond our nature. Faith is given to us so that we can go beyond the limitations of our senses. It as if a bird is trapped in a glass house. It keeps running into the wall. Our mind is confined by the senses. Faith opens up the glass ceiling so that mind can assent to the truth about God.
The object of faith is God.
The material object of faith is the revelation of God.
Practically, we place our faith in God as he reveals himself through the Sacred Scripture and the Sacred Tradition of the Church.
God revealed himself in many ways throughout the Old Testament.
He revealed himself fully in his Son, Jesus Christ.
Jesus is the perfect revelation of the Father. 1 John 1:1-4
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