Faith is central to the Christian religion. We believe that a person is justified by faith alone (Rom. 5:1). We believe that once a person is saved he is to live a life of faith. ‘We walk by faith and not by sight’ (2 Cor. 5:7). But Christianity is not the only religion to give a high place to faith. In fact, we speak of the various ‘faiths,’ by which we mean the religions of the world. The ‘man on the streets’ will sometimes speak of ‘keeping the faith,’ and