The “guy writing this” was not a guy.

It was a species.

These words are condensed from at least a hundred and fifty thousand years of oral storytelling which has been submitted to the same evolutionary pressures our bodies have, and has proven to be a culturally stabilizing influence on human fitness... or we wouldn't know anything about them today.

Pit any group of hopeful and faithful humans against any group of disheartened and distrustful humans and see who prevails. It's not ultimately a matter of whether the thing hoped for is literally, or even figuratively true. Humans will try harder when they are expecting a generous reward than when they believe their efforts are in vain.

No one guy is smart enough to see the wisdom of having faith and then to write stories that embody that wisdom so well that they are elevated to the most sacred knowledge of an entire species for thousands of years.

Only evolution can do that.

Would you like Ranch or Thousand Island on that?

Naah I just called it Word Salad.
IMO obfuscation is a Huge tell-tale!

"Breaking it apart" is something I find best to understand the overall context, but It looks like you broke off too much. Let me show you:

Faith is the substance of things hoped for.

Hope is joyful expectation.

If I told you I was going to give you a 100 dollar bill. Even though, you had not yet recieved the 100 dollar bill, it is you "faith". It is the thing you are hoping for because I said I would give it to you.

The word faith is also tied to or has connotations of confidence. So to say, you have confidence that I will give you 100 dollar bill.

Using other context from the biblical text, it says "Faith comes from hearing the [old testiment laws and wisdoms]" Faith has a knowledge connection.

Evidence of things not seen ... proving you have knowledge of something like a skill.

If you are a brain surgeon, I could not just look at you to see your skills of knowledge in brain surgery. BUT, your evidence that you have skills of knowledge of brain surgery is that you can preform the brain surgery as evidence you have the skills.

Faith in another context ties faith to knowledge such as proving faith by showing good deeds:

But someone will say, "You have faith; I have deeds." Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. James 2:18

Faith has strong connections to knowledge of things to do that would be considered good, moral, helpful or skillful things to benefit others.

I actually think that it makes a lot more sense than some word salads I have heard. It is basically saying that faith is what people use when they don't have evidence. Which actually works better in some ways as an anti-religious statement than as a pro-religious one.

Though you are of course using the King James, which can be so badly garbled and far from the original that it becomes meaningless as a representation of the original biblical authors meanings.

I go with @racocn8 . If it is not amenable to a rigorous semantic analysis then it is nothing but nonsense.

Listen to Deepak Chopra. Spiritual word salads devoid of substance or truth; really more like diarrhea.

Why is there air and other marvelous things?.... Bill cosby