Reply #43: the supernatural is unknowable by natural means

[yurbud]

therefore, you can only hope rather than believe or know it's there.

If you think you see a vision of God, you have no way to distinguish it from a hallucination, a trick, or if the supernatural exists, as a demon posing as an angel of light (an option mentioned in the Bible).

If someone else says they have seen a vision of God, it is even less reliable since there is the added option that they could be lying.

But most of the religious revelations people claim are of a much more ambiguous nature anyway: a feeling or intuition, which even Christian apologist CS Lewis could simply be the result of temperament or good digestion.