Question

In the first two lessons in your YouTube series on faith / belief (an excellent series!), you divided between two types of faith / belief: belief that is merely a subjective report about feelings within a person, and belief that is an objective claim about reality—the claim that God exists.
I want to sharpen something and hope I’ll be clear.
If a person believes that God exists, meaning his mental state is that he believes with all his soul that there is a supernatural being running the world, but that belief is based on subjective feelings—that is, he did not sit down and think and prove God’s existence in a logical and philosophical way, but rather it comes from within him on the basis of some feeling (or on the basis of some intuition that this creation must have a creator, or because of his upbringing, or the trust he places in his parents)—then seemingly he is making a claim about the world. He is claiming that God exists, except that it is indeed based on feelings and inner sensations. Which category does this type of belief belong to?
I think the distinction you made between a report about subjective feelings and a claim about the world is not necessarily precise, because if a person just has religious feelings, or a mystical experience, or feelings of wonder and sublimity, he does not say that he believes. When someone says he is in a state of belief, he is necessarily also claiming that he believes “that God exists,” and therefore he is also saying something about the world even if it comes from a subjective place. A Hasid would also claim that he believes that God exists—that is, he is making a claim about the world. The correct distinction, in my opinion, is what this mental state of belief is based on, and here there is a difference between an intellectual, rational basis and an emotional, experiential basis. The Hasid bases his belief on feeling/experience/intuition.