Belief is to faith like oxygen is to water.
Oxygen is a part of water, but very different.
Faith is similar. It has parts which must combine to make it faith rather than mere belief – which is a component part of faith. In my experience, the Word of God only gains control of my mind (consciousness) when my experience in God, His personal word to me, and my (at least) semi-conscious awareness or understanding of something relevant in the spirit world combine to cause faith to trump the natural. Or when the foregoing causes mere belief to become powerful faith; that is, faith in the truth revealed in the Bible.
Faith is the vehicle through which you know and receive from God after sin separated you from Him.
Before Adam and Eve fell into sin, they walked with God. Faith wasn’t necessary: they knew God.
Faith is a spirit thing. God is a Spirit, and faith allows us to connect with Him and with the spiritual. God uses faith to open a path between the two worlds (the spiritual dimension and the physical dimension). God designed faith, and He works through faith according to the laws of faith.
Cautionary Note: Faith in the devil, any desire to know him,
and false teachings all work similarly. Ungodly faith allows access to
evil (through faith you can know the very real devil) and negative
faith opens the door to the unwanted (for example: catastrophe).
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