Anecdotal Evidence

[RoadRunner79]

That sounds a lot like a trap, for exactly the type of concrete thinking, I'm trying to get around here.

Preliminary dismissal, based on the content, rather than the individual facts and descriptions.

RR, I gotta give you kudos for your patience.

However, it's still clear that you are trying to lay the groundwork for religious testimony as evidence of Jesus and/or God.

The fact is that we sometimes use testimonials or anecdotes as evidence, but that we know it's a particularly weak form of evidence.  If we really care about getting at absolute truth, then we need something more than that.

The reason it has come up, may be because of my religious beliefs. But I am really only trying to discuss this particular form of reasoning about knowledge. I would also disagree, that it is necessarily weak in nature.... but we can never get to that point.

I don't think that any motivations whether real or allusioned to by an interlocutor have any effect on the reasoning (neither do the consequences of a paticular case). This is about the general, not the specific.