I have faith. And I know how strong my faith was built within me. I became contented with my faith and its presence beyond my knowledge and deep in my heart, around my spirit. I am not just believing that there is God, rather knowing that He is really there, somewhere, somehow, in some many ways.
The issue is there, I just believe. I just believe that I have faith. Thus, through my faith, there inserted the fact that I find no justification other than my fist holding my wholesome faith. Well, for me that's how having faith is defined. However, I start asking question, is my Faith valid? Yes, for me. Now I ask you, is your faith valid? I know I will get the same answer but, now, the question is, how valid is it?
There is a wide spectrum of opinion with respect to the epistemological validity of faith. On one extreme is logical positivism, which denies the validity of any beliefs held by faith; on the other extreme is fideism, which holds that true belief can only arise from faith, because reason and physical evidence cannot lead to truth.
Some foundationalists, such as St. Augustine of Hippo and Alvin Plantinga, hold that all of our beliefs rest ultimately on beliefs accepted by faith. Others, such as C.S. Lewis, hold that faith is merely the virtue by which we hold to our reasoned ideas, despite moods to the contrary.
William James believed that the varieties of religious experiences should be sought by psychologists, because they represent the closest thing to a microscope of the mind—that is, they show us in drastically enlarged form the normal processes of things. For a useful interpretation of human reality, to share faith experience he said that we must each make certain "over-beliefs" in things which, while they cannot be proven on the basis of experience, help us to live fuller and better lives.(wikipedia.com)
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