What is faith??

Faith involves one's beliefs ...and is based upon confidence, trust, and one's experiences.

Faith can be as simple as believing with confidence that an acorn will become an oak tree.  Or that select labeled seeds will produce the designated plants pictured on the package ...for your garden.

For many years, I helped my dad plant a huge garden ...so, if any seed was mislabeled, I would likely know there was an error.  I know what a bean seed looks like, corn is even easier to identify, and peas likewise are just peas somewhat shriveled up. And each seed was to be planted at a certain depth in the soil, and specified inches apart ...most all in rows, and some planted in hills (not on a hill, but multiple seeds in a shallow hole. Carrots were to be planted delicately ...and were one of my favorites.

We didn't consider it as faith ...we just sort of took it for granted and understood it for what it would be.

Some people would say that an experienced gardener does not rely so much on faith, as he does on know-how and experience. 

After I left home, I went to college ...then got a position as a direct care worker in a Mental Institution.  It seemed that many of the patients struggling with the more severe illnesses, had an extra measure of a kind of faith I had not seen before. One patient jumped from a fifth story window ...and ran away. And another patient ran right through a heavy wooden door. Those of us who consider ourselves sane, would never even attempt to do those sort of things.

Would we say those mentally ill patients had great faith??  They had a measure of confidence that I don't have ...to choose to do what they did.  And they experienced success in doing rather unbelievable things.

There are some societies which have considered the mentally ill among them ...as gifted.  But, most countries privileged with the label of 'advanced', merely consider them mentally ill.

There is another group of people who believe in the Bible ...and no need to plead the fifth, as I also believe in the Bible, and I'm going to quote the fifth Chapter of Mark.  There was a certain man that it says, could not be restrained by even chains ...and he also broke the irons on his feet.  No person (or persons) was able to subdue him.  The description of him was not one of a person who was gifted.