proof is in the pudding passages

[opebo]

no, you simply lack the ability to understand, even though I parsed it.  (note the word in red - it's the receiving of the Holy Spirit that proves God exists.)

Perhaps 'convinces the receiver' might be a better way of putting it than 'proves', jmfcst, since to the disinterested observer it just appears that the receiver of the 'spirit' is mad and irrational.