More to the believer than what's felt

[Brotherly Spirit]

I'm wondering about faith, what it means to hear God and listen to him. Either to leave everything to him, or in part you leave something to yourself. But is this a false premise to have when it comes to him? Mustn't I have faith to trust him and not be doubtful, while trusting what's been known to me and not doubtful about the unknown?

According to Google search, "faith is complete trust or confidence in someone or something; then to compare, superstition is excessively credulous belief in and reverence for supernatural beings." Can't help myself to ponder the difference. I assumed faith was about the known and superstition the unknown. It was the difference of God as he's known to us, compared any else unknown to us. The leapt of faith wasn't superstitious when I've more than felt him; also the change of heart he has brought with him. How can it be as a feeling of something in the room, coming and going as we belief it?

Further defining of faith and superstition by Google are: "strong belief in God or doctrine of a religion based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof; then the latter is a widely held but unjustified belief in supernatural causation leading to certain consequences of action or event, or a practice based on such a belief." What I noticed how it defines both is closely related, so by their definition it'd be difficult to separate faith in God by what's known, versus doubt in another by what's unknown. Isn't God both, being known to us as revealed and unknown as hidden?

It seems least to believers regardless of dictionary definitions, the key difference is God let's himself be known to those who have more than feeling for him; they have in-depth changes of the heart maturing from within to eventually being realized in them to the world. While feeling for the unknown is not having him known to us; we're not to have changes on the surface. So having faith we should trust God with what he has made known to us, leaving the unknown to him; not trusting what we only feel, but leave it to him to let it be revealed. This would be feeling, thinking, and acting accordingly to his will with our whole being; anything causing us in doubt and fear to partially lack being for him, isn't him and shouldn't be trusted until otherwise revealed by him in time.

What do y'all believe about faith as a believer? You think it's different to non-believers? How is your faith different to other beliefs, making it more than what's felt but true?

 

[Tolworth John]

strong belief in God or doctrine of a religion based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof; then the latter is a widely held but unjustified belief in supernatural causation leading to certain consequences of action or event, or a practice based on such a belief.

Christianity is based on things that have happened.
So Christian faith is trust in a being who has shown himself to be dependable and reliable.

Investigate the historical facts of Christianity and realise just how trustworthy our God is.

 

[Brotherly Spirit]

Yes, I agree. Much as there is to know about God, we alone can't know everything. It's difficult to give others or more so him authority and power in our lives. Maturing as a Christian I've learned a big part of it is coming to him in Christ, whether it's reading, talking, or praying about him. I can't simply assume I know him and live my life as expected with him in it. Only Jesus truly knows him, everything there's to know; others who have been with him getting to know God have more known to them than I do. If I can just always accept this humbly, it'd be easier to give myself for the Lord.