All Men Shall be Sailors then until the Sea shall Free Them (2021) Rysunek autorstwa Edwin Loftus

The title is a line from a poem/song by Leonard Cohen, 'Suzanne'. "Now Jesus was a sailor when he walked upon the water, and he spent a long time watching from a lonely wooden tower, and when he knew for certain only drowning men could hear him, he said all men shall be sailors then, until the sea shall free them."
This scene is borrowed from the Book of Mathew 14:22 -33. The disciples of Jesus have gone ahead of him by boat, but made little progress because of a wind against them. The next morning they see Jesus walking toward them on the water and are afraid that it is a ghost. He reassures them that it is he and Peter asks Jesus to call him to join him. Peter walks on the water until doubt enters his mind and he sinks until Jesus reaches out to lift him up.
In this alteration, the sea is the sea of humanity that doubts and denies belief based on faith. They grab at Jesus and the boat filed with disciples trying to draw them down. I've changed this because that's how random lines suggested I draw it, not as a disagreement with the original story.
Faith is the belief in something in spite of a lack of evidence. I believe it is a suspension of our disbelief and a choice to believe because we want it to be true, not because evidence compels us to accept it as true.
There is a vast accumulation of evidence supporting some sort of supernatural existence and some sort of intelligent and benevolent Master of that alternate reality. But, it is not compelling, and that may be by design, but we cannot be sure of that. The atheist is foolish to say there is no evidence of God, but not that there is no compelling evidence of God. Faith depends on the desire for God to be real and that depends on our free will bought for us when some equivalent to Adam and Eve did the equivalent of eating the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Having inherited that freedom, it is our choice to make and no one knows what the true choice is or what the consequences of choosing or not choosing are, "For these things are not known to you."
But I suggest not worrying about it. Doing so puts you in the same position as Peter, waking on the water until he starts to doubt that it's safe to walk on water. Our conscious thoughts are only part of our thinking. They are encapsulations of our understandings and reactions to stimuli. Short-hand notes to our conscious on what we really think.

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