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Oct 2021
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Why is Faith a Virtue? Do We Need Faith?

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Have you heard the phrase, "never doubt in the darkness what you knew was true in the light?" Do you find yourself intellectually convinced that our faith makes sense but in times of difficulty, struggle to assent to those truths?

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