I personally think some of the comments on this site can get pretty ridiculous at times, more importantly, they can utterly obliterate an otherwise important message. However, you know what is said about opinions and how they are like a particular body part (everybody’s got one, and they all stink). The thing I have seen that truly ruins credibility is when atheists/agnostics/whatever pontificate about the Bible, yet they don’t believe in it in the first place.
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This is both difficult, and worth the answer to try to address!
I like starting with the lives of not only Abraham but also Isaac and Jacob are recorded to SHOW us what Faith is. Since that's so very clearly true, I try to avoid being flippant with an answer. It's SO easy to give the wrong impression that sells the subject short, and God isn't fooled by any of that.
In the context of Christianity, "Faith" is an enduring concept. It's alive and it grows. It cannot be contained. This adds a great deal of complexity to the task of trying to define "it," because it's neither static nor necessarily the same from one person to another.
We're told it can have a finite and tiny beginning, being compared to a mustard seed. And yet there we see a great Truth hidden in God's Word, that seeds reproduce "after their own kind." It's supposed to multiply! And that's supposed to take time.
Compare to why God picked Moses: he took the time to actually observe what could have been a very mundane thing, and only 5-10 minutes later did it become apparent that this was miraculous.
Faith is like that :)