Metaphysical Certainty...or Faith?

Christianity has replaced faith with metaphysical certainty. God does
not leave us alone, but comes to us, and talks with us. But, to take
comfort in this is an act of faith, not of philosophical conclusions.
God comes periodically and intervenes, so as to "freshen up" the the
experience and opportunity of faith. For faith to be fresh in this
way, it requires that the object of faith be ridiculed by some--
perhaps by nearly all. Moreover, it ought to be ridiculed, and stand
or fall, purely on the basis of whether such a God exists who could
be capable of revealing Himself in such a way. In other words, when
the revelation stands or falls under the assessment of whether or not
it represents some outdated cosmology, it is a sign that it has
already grown "stale," as far as its revelatory capacity is
concerned. Christianity cannot ever be perfectly systematized. At the
point that it is, it is as lacking in faith as paganism or
positivism. It is appropriate that we be, to some extent, stumbling
along in the dark, with a sign here and a sign there, but not with a
whole illuminated field.
For us, too often, faith is attributed almost to an intellectual
deficiency, or at least an error in reasoning, as though what the
unbeliever lacks is a persuasive argument. What the unbeliever lacks
is faith, which can only come by the experience of God's faithfulness.