Natural Selection Seems Insufficient

[Angrboda]

The Personal Nature of the Holy Spirit: The theological premise of an inward witness relies heavily on the Holy Spirit acting as a personal guide. According to the 2025 State of Theology survey by Ligonier Ministries and Lifeway Research, there is notable doctrinal fragmentation regarding this concept: 47% of evangelicals firmly view the Holy Spirit as a personal being, while 53% abstractly define the Spirit as "a force but not a personal being".

It doesn't look like ChatGPT finds you a reliable witness.  It goes on to say that different schools within evangelical Christianity differ on the subject of direct personal guidance by the holy spirit or whatever.   It doesn't look to be as you say.

Personal guide? Are we talking about salvation? Or sanctification?
Also I was referring mostly to theologians, not to regular pew members.

No need to backtrack; you were right, inward witness is a core part of evangelical Christianity. It's an atrocious epistemological thing, but whatever. Not my shit show.

If you care to do so, look up the Stoic's concept of phantasia katalepsis. Very similar in some ways.

An interesting tidbit of history, it was actually the Muslims who first thought of occasionalist doctrines that God moves everything.