Hi Gallenwalsh
Like our brother Marques says so well.
Your question sent me to look at the e-Sword and from what I find there, the words and meanings of faith and confidence I believe too, can be seen as one just like all the Parables of our Lord are one.
We have faith and our faith is OF the FAITH of Christ
Eph 1:14 Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of His Glory. confidence as it appears to
Psalm 65:5 By terrible things in righteousness wilt thou answer us, O God of our salvation; who art the CONFIDENCE of all the ends of the earth, and of them that are afar off upon the sea:
From H982; properly a refuge, that is, (objectively) security, or (subjectively) assurance: - confidence, hope, sure, trust.The confidence as it appears in
Eze 28:26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yes, they shall dwell with CONFIDENCE, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them around them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God. From H982; properly a place of refuge; abstractly safety, both the fact (security) and the feeling (trust); often (adverbially with or without preposition) safely: - assurance, boldly, (without) care (-less), confidence, hope, safe (-ly, -ty), secure, surely.2Co 13:5 examine yourselves, whether you are in the FAITH, prove your own selves. Do you not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, unless you are reprobates?From G3982; persuasion, that is, credence; moral conviction (of religious truth, or the truthfulness of God or a religious teacher), especially reliance upon Christ for salvation; abstractly constancy in such profession; by extension the system of religious (Gospel) truth itself: - assurance, belief, believe, faith, fidelity.So assurance, belief and fidelity may be the same as faith yet that Faith of Christ, ~ not meaning the portion we receive as a gift from Christ ~ HIS FAITH, His Faithfulness that has been tried, tested and proven true, I believe THAT FAITH has a more profound meaning not found in any dictionary or made visible through any letter of the word.
So for me, comparing spiritual with spiritual, the words confidence and faith are one.
as in confidence, faith, belief, fidelity, trust and hope Of Christ ~ is of God and God is One.
Arc