I would suggest reading Hebrews 11 as a start to begin to understand biblical faith.
I'll mention from the outset that, to me, faith in God and human logic is not always compatible.
There's a book entitled, "When God Doesn't Make Sense" by James Dobson. There are many examples of the "senseless" God who says to us finite minded creatures "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts" (Isaiah 55:8-9). God clearly didn't make sense to Jonah nor Habakkuk whom He told, "the just shall live by his faith" (Habakkuk 2:4). This is also how we should live (Rom. 1:17; Gal. 2:20; 3:11; Heb. 10:38).
So, this "senseless" God says, "Come now, and let us reason together…though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool" (Isaiah 1:18). That's step one. Step two is, "for we walk by faith, not by sight"
(2 Corinthians 5:7). That's because "For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it" (Romans 8:24-25). I realize that that's a lot of food for thought. In other words, it's spiritual "meat." Chew on it and swallow as much as you can. It will nourish your soul.
Blessings!
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