The church's teachings are not based on opinion polls but rather on divine revelation.

Individuals are encouraged to rely on personal revelation and to never take leader's statements at face value without investigating for themselves if they be true.

In other words, image making relies on human sources rather than on divine revelation.

It uses general historical principles, and is based primarily on reason rather than revelation or faith.

Nevertheless, the emphasis on revelation being the primary means of knowing God is kept within its system.

Reason could not prove the soul was immortal, for instance; all the rest of Christian belief thus rested on revelation.

This would make religions that are based on revelation unnecessary.

Was he or was he not based on revelation?

"All religion depends on revelation," Harold Bloom is heard to say.

Many religions fundamentally rely on revelation as a test of truth.