No external sign can certify a divine command, so man must choose alone.

Evidence

If an angel appears to me, what is the proof that it is an angel; or, if I hear voices, who can prove that they proceed from heaven and not from hell, or from my own subconsciousness or some pathological condition? Who can prove that they are really addressed to me? — Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism Is a Humanism, 11

Categorization

• FICTION: The hallucinating woman who says ‘He says it is God’ and the unprovable angel are a vivid miniature of the epistemic vertigo of revelation — seed for a story about an unreliable prophet or a modern-day Abraham.
• SHARE: This Kierkegaard/diagnosis passage is exactly the kind of thing a friend who studied religious ethics would want to chew on.
• XREF: connects to: A God bound by conceptual logic can give nothing freely.

Broader Connections

• A God bound by conceptual logic can give nothing freely. #qualifies (0.75)