In the bible faith is not primarily a set of beliefs.  We are told Demons too believe but are not saved.  Rather, it is a special kind of trust.  Jesus says faith can move mountains, which highlighted The Absurd because would Jesus not then move a mountain himself to drive the point home?

The paragon of faith in the bible was Abraham who God promised a great line of descendants, but then by virtue of the absurd ordered Abraham to kill his son.  Abraham’s faith was not a set of ideas, because that would require the impossible holding of two contradictory notions simultaneously, but rather trusting and following God regardless of what God commanded or even if God contradicts himself. 

As I said last time, in Romans Paul notes faith in Christ preserves this contrariety where in one sense God sent Jesus to die to pay the sin fine, while Christ was also the godly chosen Davidic messianic claimant who was viciously rejected by the world, but saved them with his moral influence death.  One problem was people were accountable for sinning, but on the other hand their minds were being influenced by the demonic entity Sin, and so the spell needed to be broken, and people’s eyes opened.  Jesus was like the angels in Lot’s story who were sent to test the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, the people failing the test when they demanded to rape the angels.  The contradiction is how can God hold mankind accountable for sin if the reason they are sinning is because of demon brainwashing? God’s beloved Jesus on the cross, when we realize the sin in our hearts was also in those who wrongfully killed Jesus, circumcises the fleshly from our hearts awakening the Law written upon them.