Whether the object of faith can be false
Article XIV. Whether the object of faith can be false.
1. Some say faith's object can be false — if God (which is impossible) revealed a falsehood, or if someone believes what is in fact false, taking it as revealed.
2. Formally, divine faith's object cannot be false. It rests on God's testimony; he is truth itself and can neither deceive nor be deceived. Believing a falsehood is error or fallacious human faith, not divine faith.
3. Faith about conditionals or future contingents does not make the object false: God reveals what is true, even about contingents, according to his decree.
Latin
ART. XIV. An objectum fidei possit esse falsum. 1. Non desunt qui asserant objectum fidei posse esse falsum — si DEUS (per impossibile) falsum revelaret, vel si aliquis credat id quod de facto falsum est, putans a DEO revelatum. 2. Respondemus: Objectum fidei divinae, formaliter spectatum, non potest esse falsum; quia fides divina nititur DEI testimonio, qui est ipsa veritas & nec fallere nec falli potest. Si quid falsum creditur, non est fides divina, sed error vel fides humana fallax. 3. Quod aliqui dicunt de fide quae versatur circa propositiones conditionales vel de futuris contingentibus, non facit objectum fidei esse falsum: DEUS enim vera revelat, etiam de contingentibus, secundum decretum suum.