[JM]

One of the comments you will hear from people when they are stuck answering questions about the validity of the views of God which have been formed from the bible and church teaching is

My experiences show me God is real

I.e I was sitting praying and felt goosebumps
or.. I was sitting praying and i saw a picture
or I was prayed for something and it happened ( not the usual of course as many times people pray and the results they are hoping for dont happen )

Now.. sure people can argue the toss with people about whether those expriences were true or not

But personally, I would rather go at it from a different angle and say that

Experiences May Validate for each of us our Connection to God and Gods connection to us enough for Us to believe in God

But our Experiences dont 100% validate what we have been taught about God or learned about God from the bible.

Meaning a person could and can have an experience and feel 100% in their heart that it was God

And really no one can argue with that...

But that Experience alone would not Validate a reason to say that Everything the bible says is correct about Who God is and What God wants.


So....

In a discussion of Faith in God

The way I personally see it and you might differ from this iss

If a person says they have had many experiences that validates for them their reasons to Believe in God. That is fine

Yet if a person says they have had many experiences and that Validates for them their reason to believe in God and to believe the bible is True in its portrait of God. The second part of that I would have to disagree with...

What do you think?