Bravo! for your honesty. That takes integrity.

I should like to make two notes:

First:
We do use faith when we suppose that no monsters will jump out of our refrigerators and eat us. This isn’t blind faith, of course. It’s a reasonable faith based on experience. In general, monsters don’t habitate our refrigerators, no matter how long your leftovers hang about there! But there’s no reason why monsters should not be there. Nor is there any reason why dandelions should be blue one day instead of yellow. A Christian might say God wills such things, but there is no reason why God should not say, “Tomorrow I’ll make icebox monsters and blue dandelions just to remind men that they rely on Me more than they give credit for.”

Second:
I’m afraid the Christian worldview makes this sort of faith and therefore your jump to induction a requirement. The reasons go thus: God values free will. Free will is destroyed in the undeniable presence of God [knowledge destroys faith; free will requires an element of belief since knowledge presupposes destiny [with all of the lack of choice implied therewith], so He leaves us with Blaise Pascal’s “too little to be sure, too much to ignore” situation. As the Book of Hebrews says, without faith it’s impossible to please God, for we must believe that He is [deism] and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him [a personal God; theism].

Any thoughts?
–Sirius Knott