•We believe
that repentance and faith are sacred duties,
vFAITH Trusting commitment of one
person to another, particularly of a
person to God. Faith is the central concept of Christianity. One may be
called a Christian only if one has faith. Our
English word "faith" comes from the Latin fides, as developed through the Old French words fei and feid. In Middle English
(1150-1475) "faith" replaced a word that eventually evolved into "belief."
"Faith" came to mean "loyalty to a person to
whom one is bound by promise or duty." Faith
was fidelity. "Belief" came to be
distinguished from faith as
an intellectual process having to do with the acceptance of a proposition. The verb form of
"faith" dropped out of
English usage toward the end of the sixteenth
century.
Article
of Faith - VIII