The strict calvinist answer to Glen's question is that no one knows but god who god has chosen to be the religious elect. Even the subject's testimony is no good, for they could be deluded, though you could torture them to determine if how strongly they hold to their delusion.
But I guess that torture is probably as empirical as you can get on this sort of question, though you're only testing how stubbornly they hold the belief, not how correct they are that they do believe. -- rec --
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