What is faith?

There is a sign that confusion exists about understanding faith. It can be seen in the way faith and knowledge is separated. Some people have long argued: "we have knowledge, you have faith." Believers many times don't resist that argument. But to avoid confusion, they should.

 

To get a better grasp about the confusion in the knowledge vs. faith discussion, we first need to look at the way people treat information. Because in order to have faith, there first needs to be some content.

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Politics serve here, because there are similarities with religion, in that there are several ideas to choose from. In politics people pick their party. That decision then dictates their stance towards all political ideas. Their party is superior and brings about the best outcome for society. The stance is seldom called faith, but nevertheless it is. They believe their party is the best and most correct. That is the stance they have taken towards the information in question.

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In todays world most people make shopping decisions based on scientific studies they heard about. They don't perform the studies themselves, but trust the information they heard. That is another example of everyday faith, to show that faith is not in contrast to knowledge but a stance to knowledge.

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In is the decision making that truly allows to be seen where faith is placed. A believer uses the Word of God by which to judge things. Their source of knowledge above other sources is what God has declared to humanity. That knowledge makes times of ignorance over:

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Acts 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent.

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What ever information is given the priority guides how we evaluate conflicting information, suggestions, ways of action etc. Faith can be placed in many things but it always guides life choices, some things approved, others discarded.

 

The above should show that some kind of faith is always used in decision making. Faith is by no means only conceptual. The ideas that a person acts upon, are their most defining beliefs. An atheist or a Christian, both of them choose from the information they prioritize. This realization invalidates the "knowledge vs. faith" argument, where the atheist tries to place their stance above the believer. Both ways begin with information. The atheist discards the information given in the Bible.

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Why it always comes back to morality

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The concept of God begins with the thought of far superior abilities compared to man. Abilities that are able to see the shortcomings of humans.​ The decision is made here, in the want to hide the shortcomings, and not in the demand that God's existence needs to first be proven.

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John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

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How does God see faith?