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Originally Posted by Sovereigneer
How can anyone be considered "trustworthy" unless someone had first stepped out in faith and "trusted" the person regarding some prior issue while the integrity of the person in question was yet unproven?
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Simple. Through observation and demonstrations of character in situations where you had no risk. For instance, you may trust a new employee (to a certain extent) because his/her referrences turned out to be good.
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Originally Posted by Sovereigneer
It would seem to me that an extension of "faith" is required before trustworthiness can be established. I know also that God works this way in my life as well. He continues to "prove" Himself to me, therefore, I continue to trust Him in greater and greater degrees. This allows my "faith" to grow. However, I had to trust Him first and allow Him to "prove" Himself.
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In the case of spiritual matters, there is much less to go on, so more faith early-on is usually required. If people bother to really look, there is plenty of tangible evidence out there on which to build a reasonable belief that God is out there and worthy of our praise and worship. Faith would then come easier, I think.
-BT