Question about "faith"

[Angrboda]

I see. I disagree with the premise of the question. Faith is not for believing in God's existence; faith is for trusting God after you believe he exists. That is how faith is used in Scripture. As far as the Christian is concerned, the proposer is God, his proposition is salvation, and his merits include the crucifixion. Faith, therefore, is trust in God with regards to forgiveness, deliverance from temptation, etc.

How you come to believe in God's existence is entirely dissociated from faith and dependent on you. I assume that for most people, personal experience, evidence, teachings, culture, or argumentation played a role in that belief. In the Bible stories at least, people come to believe after some miracle, sign, or divine appearance.

Do these people who came to belief through experience, etc, have first-hand observation of the divine, or do they trust or have faith in others, such as the authors of the bible?