The position that experience is ultimately the best teacher is certainly a possible one, but it is not a necessary one. … While experience is crucial to our understanding, experience must begin with some presuppositions some axioms, a place from which to begin. A Christian would assert that the Bible is, by faith [i.e., presuppositionally], true. Our experience is thereafter interpreted by the Scripture. It is not the other way around. We do not interpret the Bible in the "light" of our experience. Experience may exemplify Scripture's truth, but it cannot "prove" or buttress it. If our individual experience proves Scripture, then we are implicitly presupposing that our experience is superior to Scripture in validity.
Excerpt from "Presuppositions of Experience"
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