Faith is not a matter of rationalizing through all the religious stories you know or the religious things you're "supposed to do." 

Faith is not a matter of finally getting a good, pursuasive, black and white answer to something like whether there was a worldwide flood or dinosaurs coexisted with man.

Faith is not a matter of determining that even though you can’t figure out how a man could live inside a fish for three days, you'll just suspend your rationality and just “take it on faith.” 

Rather, faith simply starts with looking for mercy in an eternal sense in the only place it’s offered.  

There’s nowhere else to go,