How do you know your faith isn't credulity?

That is precisely what most faith is, which is why I abhor faith based thinking.

That's an excellent question.

I don't have 'faith', and tend to be skeptical of anything that requires me to suspend my disbelief.

Someone could ask me: 'How do you know your skepticism isn't keeping you from finding the truth?'.

I would have to reply that In my experience, the truth ALWAYS has evidence to offer as proof.

If something is real, it continues to be real, even after you stop believing in it.

Baha'u'llah was very real with mountains of legal documentation of his life, imprisonment, and exile. Until very recently there were people still alive who had met him. His teachings in his own hand are preserved in state of the art archives. His will and testament definitively appoints his successor and blueprints the administrative structure. The teachings of the Baha'i Faith are spiritual, practical, profoundly uplifting, and unifying.

My faith has been 20+ years in the making; it hardly qualifies as credulity.

Because I became what I am by asking hostile questions.

I tested every answer.

I found God and discovered that God was nothing like what I was taught.

My faith isn't the one I was raised to believe.

My religion is a daily revelation of personal searching.

My God is love and doesn't care about the details of any dogma or religion.

Evidence.

How do you know your lack of faith isn't credulity?

I really dont know but i pray that what i feel isnt fake or a hoax which is why ive tried many religions and philosophies to try to find out which one is the right path to take.

One must test it by the experiences of it in life and if it accords with Reason/Natural Law and at the same time surpasses Reason.

when you go through something and you come out still believing even when you feel like you have turned your back on God.....and see things with new eyes after the fog is gone.....Then it becomes real. You own it now.....no one can take it from you.

When you get a direct answer to a request. It takes prqactice.