It is an unfortunate fate we grow into - to be born into a system of faith we don't necessarily consent to, but one we must belong to by virtue of our parent's own lack of better judgement or enslavement to other people's ideals. I would envision a time when children had to grow up first, then presented with the multitudes of choices and ideals, decide from their own judgement, whether to make their own poison or pick from the shelf. That time is long gone most likely.
Who is the authority on faith? Who can claim to know (ha, "know"!) what the "true faith" is? It's like claiming to know the extent of the infinite if I should employ a spatial analogy. Who has fooled both himself and his congregation about being in the know about the attributes and essence of that which can't and doesn't seek proof? Who are these fools? Claiming to have amassed knowledge and degrees on matters of "faith"? Pathetic sheep we must be, under the guidance of much more deluded and blind shepherds!
We are a finite being, attempting to arrest and own knowledge of the infinite! Surely, faith should be our best friend, our only authority on matters beyond science and logic. But faith is faith - to be taken as such and no more! For those whose eyes deliberately chose to look at their tables, feet and arms and no further, let the faith of their breadwinner define their horizon. But for the ubermensch willing to seek faith at the horizon of their own experience, a point beyond which it surely makes no more sense to measure, deduce or infer, let no fool try to offer authority on what the shade of the void ought to be.
On the matter of "faith that comes from God", something others refer to as revelation, it's only a power-hungry, cunning, deceitful and probably greedy entity that'll claim to represent God and faith from It to the often unsuspecting and helpless herd. Attempts by such, to the awakened faithful, shall always meet with resistance, shame or even violence, as it is known to these few that these are matters on "faith that only come from God" to each and every particular man as the two of them find fit, and no third party can claim to witness nor be an authority over this communion that seeks nor can't be demonstrated. This is my faith, and I shall own it.
