Is Personal Testimony Or Witness Enough To Support The Validity Of Religious Experience?

Question 1

The strength of someone’s belief that they’ve ? God could be considered as evidence that it must have really happened. However, the ? with which an account is given doesn’t necessarily mean it’s true.

Answer 1

Encountered.

Sincerity.

Question 2

In Carole Franks Davis’ book, “The Evidential ? of Religious Experience”, she argues that we should only take someone’s word at face value when the issue is relatively ?

Answer 2

Force.

Trivial.

Question 3

In Matthew’s Gospel, people are warned to “watch out for false ?” (Matthew 7:15). Early Christians were well aware that not everyone who claimed to have been given some kind of special ? from God was telling the truth.

Answer 3

Prophets.

Revelation.

Question 4

According to Russell, the good effects a religious experience might have on someone would provide no ? at all that the experience had come from God and didn’t have a ? ?

Answer 4

Evidence.

Natural explanation.