Religious claims can be theological, historical, textual, scientific, institutional, or personal. Those are different claim types. They do not use the same evidence.
- Label confessional statements as belief or theology.
- Use primary texts and qualified scholarship for historical and textual claims.
- Distinguish scholarly consensus from denominational interpretation.
- Give dates, translations, manuscript traditions, and institutional context when they matter.
- State uncertainty. An unanswered question is not evidence for the preferred answer.
- Do not demand that another member disprove a doctrine before they are permitted to reject it.
Personal experience belongs to the person reporting it. It can establish what they experienced. It does not automatically establish every claim about an institution, diagnosis, motive, or supernatural cause.