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In my personal experience, faith is not the best avenue to religious knowledge: I find it excessively normative. It seems like a tool by which you are able to bypass your rational faculties in order to adopt a belief you aren't sure is true.
What I recommend is a rational inquiry into what the appropriate foundation for knowledge of God is. I have found the best starting point to be David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. Essentially, Hume presents a skeptical approach to natural religion, a dogmatic (faith-based) approach, and [another that currently escapes me]. The conclusions he reaches about natural religion are quite profound.
Once you have made the discovery of proper natural religion through rational inquiry, you will be in a far better position to discriptively analize revealed religion. The end result will either be:
1. You end up (re)gaining confidence in your previous set of beliefs, but are far happier because you have tested the solidity of the foundation upon which your beliefs rest.
2. You discover that a different sect or religious preference better aligns with your naturalized account and you will be happy with your newfound understanding of God.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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