But to your early 19th-century listeners, you describing barely imaginable wonder. Peter great faith is shown in Matthew 14:28-31, when he is briefly able to walk on water until doubt enters his mind. Nowhere does the Bible speak unequivocally of the importance of faith in the cognitive sense of belief that something is the case, namely, that God exists. Yet Mrs Blears has granted 25,000 of this to the British Humanist Association, which is fundamentally opposed to faith groups and to Christianity in particular. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have faith in the heartland any relation to reality at all.