A.C.Hughes asked:

Ultimate universe reality cannot be grasped by mathematics, logic, or philosophy, only by personal
experience in progressive conformity to the divine will of a personal God. Neither science, philosophy,
nor theology can validate the personality of God. Only the personal experience of the faith-sons of the
heavenly Father can effect the actual spiritual realization of the personality of God. True of False?

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There is no way of saying whether your statement is true or false although doubtless it is one or the
other. You rule out of court the methods we have for assessing the truth of a proposition in your first
sentence: on the basis you have given for finding out the facts, I think it is impossible to assess the
truth of your claim. You can't have your cake and eat it, and claim that personal experience makes a
proposition true and then rule out other methods by which we normally assess it. If your claim is true,
then we would have to be able to explain why it is true in other terms to avoid circularity.

I don't know of any way to make a negative statement about truth, bracket it off and then ask whether
the whole statement is true or not. On your basis, I could argue:

*A statement is true if and only if I enjoy one of the faith experiences you describe.

*Faith experiences are a sufficient criteria for truth.

*I haven't had such experiences.

*So, your statement is false.

But this clearly begs the question!

According to Hume, rightly in my view, reports of personal religious experiences are almost always
less likely to be true than the intrinsic likelihood of the truth of the agent's being mistaken. So this
gives an inductive basis for thinking that your statement about God is false, in a possible world in
which the truth of a proposition is assessed externally to the personal faith encounter.

Adam Gatward

False!

Will Greenwood