7757. The joining of the good of charity to the truth of faith takes place in a person s interiors. The good itself that flows in from the Lord adopts the truth there and makes it its own. In doing this it causes the good with a person to be good, and the truth to be truth; that is, it causes the charity to be charity and the faith to be faith. If the two are not joined together charity is not charity but merely natural goodness; and faith is not faith but merely knowledge of such things as are matters of faith, or sometimes more of an acceptance that a thing is true, brought about by inordinate desires for wealth and honour.