@Finn dAbuzz,
Quote:I have faith that God exists, that he is the creator of all things and loves (for lack of a better word) his creations.
You cannot have faith in something that exists only in the realm of your beliefs. No one wants to relegate the object of their belief to the realm of simple belief, and that's why they opt to call semantics into play for the purpose of increasing the reality of something that has yet to be proven real. So they attempt to upgrade their belief by calling it faith. But it's still a belief.
Faith is a belief in the structure or behavior of something whose existence is evident. For instance, you have faith that your wife will not betray you. And that faith is applicable because it has to do with the behavior of something that is tangible--your wife. She is not a belief; she is a reality.
You acquired your belief in the god from a book. You borrowed another's belief, even to the extent that you believe that God is its name, and creating is its game, and that it is a male. Believers tend to ignore the fact that their beliefs are the result of having been influenced.
In what way do you believe that the god you believe in loves its creation?