What is faith?

I think that faith is essentially the same thing as belief, except that its warrant for existing is rather different to the reference of empirically verifiable evidence or of general ‘experience;’ I think this is why one might ‘believe’ that ghosts exist having ‘experienced their presence’ through something like an Ouija board, but one would not have ‘faith’ per se in the existence of such beings. Belief stems from experiences that either come from the outside world, or false experiences that are attributed as being external in nature, when in reality they are merely a figment of the imagination, while faith comes solely from inner experiences and feelings, and ones that are correctly attributed as such (although conversely this leads to the faith being put in something that may well be more external than it is internal; such a point of view relies on ‘God’ conceptually being everywhere, both in and out of the human psyche). Faith comes either from some kind of internal sense that there definitely is something for which faith is worth having, or from an inner need or desire for such a thing to exist and to be worthy of having faith in. This opinion is almost entirely shaped by my own justification for why I personally have faith in God; for me it comes from the sense that ultimately I can’t believe there is simply nothing that lies beyond the universe – science has no answer for what caused its creation to occur, so in that sense I have faith in the concept of God as a creator because He seems to be the only answer. More than justifying why I could believe there to be a God at all, I think my faith primarily stems from the fact that for multiple reasons I fundamentally believe that there is some kind of ‘specialness’ to humanity and elements of reality that nature alone simply cannot explain – this again is the inner sense of something ‘other’ being present. Faith comes from the inside of the human mind, although it is impossible to say whether its presence is legitimate or not.