The only Faith we need is Faith that God is Good, because we can't prove it, except by having Faith in it. If we don't have that Faith, we tend to find life to be meaningless, depressing, or frightening. But there are good Reasons to have such Faith too. I think the main Reason people often tend not to have such Faith is that it seems cruel of God to make people and other sentient creatures susceptible to experiencing severe physical and emotional pain. However, as I said at acts15church.substack.com/p/why-there-is-pain, the purposes for pain are, not just to support the survival instinct so we don't readily give up on life or don't take big risks with our lives, but also to develop our love for others as well as for ourselves. Because, if there were no pain, such as the pain of loneliness, it wouldn't bother us to be alone, and if no one suffered, we wouldn't care about anyone's well-being. This doesn't mean we should contribute to anyone's suffering, nor to enjoy or desire suffering, since that only adds to the problem, not the solution. The solution is to love everyone and to encourage others to do likewise.
Faith and Reason tend to support each other. We can't understand everything, so we have to have Faith in what is beyond our present understanding. We have to have Faith in Reason and Reason tells us it's reasonable to have such Faith. Reason can take us a long way toward finding and understanding truth, but it can't go all the way, since our reasoning isn't infinite.
The Bible claims that there have been many miraculous events. I don't believe we're supposed to have Faith in any such events. Instead, we're supposed to use Reason to help us determine if the miracles were likely real or not. The Catholic Church used to promote a myth about St. Christopher, who was said to have carried Christ across a river. They finally admitted in the 20th century that it was a myth. I guess they admitted the same about St. George and the Dragon. But the Bible may contain similar myths as well. We know that the Bible contains errors. James Trimm, a messianic Jewish scholar, used to point out that the Book of Matthew left out one of the ancestors of Jesus, apparently because an early Greek scribe who copied the text didn't notice that two of his ancestors in a row had very similar names, so one of them was overlooked. In other cases words were mistranslated. A couple examples are camel and eunuch. The passage about a camel going through the eye of a needle is supposed to be about a rope, not camel, going through the eye of a needle. Eunuch is supposed to be jar merchant. Mr. Trimm also pointed out that the Bible is incomplete, because it's supposed to include the Book of Jasher, since a couple or a few Bible passages refer to that book.
My policy is to doubt any miracle mentioned in the Bible (or anywhere) until there's good evidence for it. Even then, I think it's best to remain skeptical. It's more honest, IMO, to believe in the probability of things, than in the certainty of them in many cases. I used to think many of the miracles involved in the Exodus were improbable. Then I found evidence that many parts of the Exodus story were likely real. So I now believe those parts are more or less probable. I wrote about my findings at cataclysmicearthhistory.substack.com/p/evidence-for-the-exodus. That's part of one of my books at zzzzzzz.substack.com/p/ancient-myths-are-planetary-history. Some of this evidence was possibly Egyptian chariot wheels and parts found at the bottom of the shallowest part of the Gulf of Aqaba, which the Israelites apparently crossed to reach Mt. Sinai etc. In a recent post in this Substack at acts15church.substack.com/p/the-exodus-comet I discussed the pillar of fire and cloud that guided the Israelites to the sea crossing, which was likely a large comet. In these posts I discussed other Biblical history that seems to be supported by archeology and other science:
acts15church.substack.com/p/bible-is-part-history;
cataclysmicearthhistory.substack.com/p/bible-history-is-mostly-right;
cataclysmicearthhistory.substack.com/p/more-bible-history-joseph-to-canaan.
This morning I watched this video, Pagan Parallels Don't Disprove Christianity, at youtube.com/watch?v=HRdiap_52j0. It argued that just because many ancient myths are similar to different aspects of Jesus' story doesn't mean that Jesus' story is a myth. I previously wrote a little about that at acts15church.substack.com/p/ancient-myths-and-religion. My view is that ancient myths were misinterpretations of ancient events that occurred mostly in the sky. My suspicion is that God allowed those events to be misinterpreted, but then used them as lessons for humanity that Jesus explained. Just as Jesus said he came not to destroy the law (Torah), but to fulfill it (which messianic Jews say meant he came to teach the Torah correctly), I think Jesus also came to teach ancient myths correctly. The Pharisees and other Jews had greatly "destroyed" or distorted the Torah by mixing it up with ancient myths. I think the Old Testament is still misinterpreted quite a bit. I think the story of Samson is based on ancient myths about Saturn. Saturn was called Samas in Hebrew. I don't know the derivation of Samson, but in English it ironically suggests "Son of Samas" or "Samas' Son". Mars was called the son of Saturn, because Saturn, Venus and Mars were, up until the time of the Great Flood or later, close to Earth, though not as close as the Moon is now, and Mars appeared to come from Saturn and Venus. In Revelation Mars appears to be used to symbolize Jesus in the womb of the Virgin in the constellation Virgo. Even the cross is a symbol that came from ancient myths. The Romans apparently used the cross for crucifixions because of believing in those myths. Jesus apparently said early in his ministry, Take up your cross and follow me. A cross was a symbol of sacrifice.
A clue that Faith doesn't mean what most Christians think it means is that the word used in Greek, the main language the Bible was initially written in, means Faithful. So the English translators replaced the word Faithful with Faith. So the New Testament was mainly talking about having Faithfulness, rather than just "Faith". So let’s have a mustard seed or larger amount of faithfulness in God and Jesus’ Example of Love for All. Shall we?