this scholar of religion characterized the encounter with the holy as a numinous experience
Religious experience The numinous experience also has a personal quality to it, in that the person feels to be in communion with a holy other. Otto sees the numinous as the only possible religious experience. He states: "There is no religion in which it [the numinous] does not live as the real innermost core and without it no religion would be worthy of the name" (Otto: 1972). Otto does not take any other kind of religious experience such as ecstasy and enthusiasm seriously and is of the opinion that they belong to the 'vestibule of religion'.
Living Faith Church Worldwide The beginnings of the church can be traced back to May 1981 when Oyedepo at age 26, experienced a supernatural encounter in which he had an 18-hour vision from God. In this vision God spoke to him saying, "Now the hour has come to liberate the world from all oppressions of the devil, through the preaching of the Word of faith; and I am sending you to undertake this task".[1] Two years later, the church began operating with four members on December 11, 1983.[2] In 2014, the Church is in 65 countries. [3]