Words like Faith are one of many that have been used to build on faulty foundations. Phrases like keep the faith; or, faith will carry you through have been assigned to the most outrageous human initiatives. The most abominable acts of man being accomplished is based on some type of invented faith. Let's see:
When the pilgrims arrived in America, by faith, they conquered (and destroyed) other people. Yet the most insidious action was for them to adopt the word faith from the Bible.
The same missionaries who went into the wilds of Africa, by faith, used the same faith from the Bible to destroy, kill and rob the lands of Africa, and to complement the slave slave trade.
Even the the most crooked politicians and leaders in modern society use the word to to achieve attain, control and maintain power and saying that it was their faith in God that help them to become.
It's not just the expropriation of the word faith, but it's should be clear that other words like love, respect, and, yes, Jesus have been used extensively in vile narratives in order for man to actualize his worldly greed for power and money.
False Witnesses and Prophets
Thin about it. Most (many) messengers of God's word in society today have used the Biblical narratives and meanings to build on a faulty foundation where many are surprise to hear that pedophilia; thievery; deception; idolatry; hate; racism; materialism, etc. have all been given a license to run rampant.
The results are appalling, as the the church was meant to be a sanctuary for the least, lost and tires have been turned into a purveyor of worldly deeds.
The message here should be clear, even if you now decide to turn away or stop reading, man has failed to be good stewards of God's message for the world. The church that man has designed has become a playground for the devil. It should be a surprise to read: "The Vatican expressed "shame and sorrow" on Thursday about a scathing Pennsylvania grand jury report that said clergy raped and molested children in six dioceses." (http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-Vatican-sex-abuse-grand-jury-response-20180816-story.html).
One is only naive when they think that the Catholic church is the sole purveyor of sinful acts. Quite frankly, many Christian, Jewish as Muslim Churches have had their share of infamous and evil acts that go against the real meaning of words that have been pronounced in the Bible. While this submission is not meant to be a theological masterpiece, it can bring to attention that man's intellectualism and worldly desires have combined to be the main culprit for destroying the message of about about love.
For every divine revelation, man has selfishly interpreted it to fit his world nature. It's not that God has authorized these false dissemination, but man - every since man's awakening in the Garden of Eden to his ability to reason and think to himself, there have been a infinite battle to submit God's dominion to man's control.
In Layman terms Man has been Whoring the Word of God
To be sure, ultimately man's disrespect for God and using his treasure, will someday lead to eternal destruction. God help those who are able to see and are to steer clear of this human travesty of faith before its too late.
People are yearning more than ever to be restored to the balance that God had promised through his Son, Jesus. The Good News is that many have accepted this inexorable solution as a gift from God. However, it can arguably further be categorized into subsets: From True believers down to: the crafty; to the the liars; to the deceivers; to false prophets and worshipers.
I am no stranger to revelation and messages from God. I have experience of being a vessel where I've been used to deliver a Word from God to his flock. Recently as I listened attentively to a well-known and revered minister preach to his flock abut faith - you can almost see the double tongue in his delivery.
This was not because it wasn't a nice message, but it was because it had been well recorded that he had resorted to things that mock his confessed faith - things that are manifested through evil inventions. Yet, as he boast about his being adored and the asses were following, no matter what, this still stands out as proof that man (not just this man ) is mocking and trying o use God for their world glory.
Keeping the Faith and losing the Fight
So we are now here. Many people have faith in something, but faith of God is not negotiable - the love of God, the promises of god, the victories in God, the hope in God are all not negotiate by fitting into the aperture of man's worldly limitations and worldly schemes.
Here's the message. Not until man is able and bold to yank himself from the evil infestation that the worldly church has wrought, great disappointment and damnation are nigh. Hence, man can keep the faith in the wrong things and lose the fight.
Today we have a great apostasy. Man in his craftiness in words and deceit can fool many people most of the time, but the Truth of God is foolproof.