Comment Re:It's always refreshing (Score 1) 1090
It wouldn't be faith, if we could prove the whole thing scientifically.
I think you're looking at the wrong definition of "faith." I think it means being faithful, as in being faithful to your wife; not "believing".
It's both, isn't it? It's both being faithful to your god's expectations, and having faith in their existence and nature.
To follow your example, I am both faithful (show fidelity) to my wife, and I have faith (believe) that she will act according to what I know about her.
That said, we're talking about personified entities, here, regardless of your diety or dieties of choice. They are more psychology (soft-science) than physics or math as far as understanding or 'prooving'. There's a reason why the Bible and Greek/Roman/Norse mythologies (and probably others I'm less familiar with) speak of emotions with respect to God and the gods behavior (anger, as a common example), rather than logical rules that one gets from the hard-sciences. As such, one doesn't need faith to believe in gravitational or magnetic forces, but does need faith to believe in God's compassion.