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Do any Christians adopt a reliabilist approach to their belief in God and Christianity?

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Reliabilism is defined by several sources as follows: > Reliabilism is an approach to the nature of knowledge and of justified belief. **Reliabilism about justification, in its simplest form, says that a belief is justified if and only if it is produced by a reliable psychological process, meaning a process that produces a high proportion of true beliefs**. A justified belief may itself be false, but its mode of acquisition (or the way it is subsequently sustained) must be of a kind that typically yields truths. Since random guessing, for example, does not systematically yield truths, beliefs acquired by guesswork are not justified. By contrast, identifying middle-sized physical objects by visual observation is presumably pretty reliable, so beliefs produced in this manner are justified. Reliabilism does not require that the possessor of a justified belief should know that it was reliably produced. Knowledge of reliability is necessary for knowing that a belief is justified, but the belief can be justified without the agent knowing that it is. > > Source: https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/reliabilism/v-1 > One of the main goals of epistemologists is to provide a substantive and explanatory account of the conditions under which a belief has some desirable epistemic status (typically, justification or knowledge). **According to the reliabilist approach to epistemology, any adequate account will need to mention the reliability of the process responsible for the belief, or truth-conducive considerations more generally**. Historically, one major motivation for reliabilism—and one source of its enduring interest—is its naturalistic potential. According to reliabilists, epistemic properties can be explained in terms of reliability, which in turn can be understood without reference to any unreduced epistemic notions, such as evidence or knowledge. > > Source: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reliabilism/ > A broadly reliabilist theory of knowledge is roughly as follows: > >> One knows that p (p stands for any proposition—e.g., that the sky is blue) if and only if p is true, one believes that p is true, and one has arrived at the belief that p is true through some *reliable* process. > > A broadly reliabilist theory of justified belief can be stated as follows: > >> One has a justified belief that p if, and only if, the belief is the result of a reliable process. > > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliabilism Do any Christians adopt a reliabilist approach to their belief in God and Christianity? That is to say, are there any Christians who believe that there is a *reliable process* through which one can reliably arrive at the conclusion that God exists and that Christianity is true? --- NOTE. There is a similar question concurrently asked on Philosophy Stack Exchange: [Can a reliabilist have a reliably justified belief in God?](https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/q/113311/66156)
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