>>Faith, he wrote, must be based upon direct experience, not religious platitudes.
If one can objectively establish something by their own experience doesn't that just become a fact? Why do we need faith in the first place.
If one can objectively establish something by their own experience doesn't that just become a fact? Why do we need faith in the first place.
But to me it looks like a lot of personal experience is just personal; it is subjective and it is hard to establish a particular experience as "fact" without widespread consensus. So faith might be necessary in the meantime.