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Whilst others claim to have PROOF that God exists because they felt a shover run up their spine whilst praying. I get shivers in particularly good scenes of movies, but that doesn;t mean the movie is based on a true story.
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You are still stuck with the same problem. While you have not personally experienced that which you are trying to describe, you are trying to explain it away with offhand comments. I know this works for you because either you have never experienced the same thing or you were not personally convicted by it.
The point I am trying to make is that in oversimplifying your explanation, you are not convincing anyone that was moved by the experiential occurrence. The explanation you offer works for you, but you are not walking in their shoes. You will have to come up with better proof than that in order to convince people that this is definitely not of God.
The fact that experiences are different doesn't matter. This is like saying a large volume of trees are not a forest because all of the fauna is of different species. Each tree is unique, singular and individual. But the forest itself is the sum of this variety of individuals. I look at experiential testimony the same way. A certain amount of it may be colored by what we already believe or disbelieve.