Not emotion ahead of faith, but faith and doctrine prior to experience and still God the Holy Spirit has the power to provide some powerful testimony, which we both agree.
The Protestant definition of faith is emotionalism. Faith isn’t feeling.
You make many worthy points quite routinely--THANKFULLY.
However, I believe the "prior to experience" to be a straw dog and a rather illogical one, at that.
There can be
NO APPREHENSION, PERCEPTION, AWARENESS, UNDERSTANDING . . .
OF FAITH, DOCTRINE, SCRIPTURE OR ANYTHING ELSE
APART FROM
EXPERIENCE.
If whatever we are thinking of, dealing with, postulating about, pontificating on, praying about, attempting to understand, walk-out, live-out, . . .
has absolutely NO registry on our PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCE
THEN
we have NO AWARENESS OF ITS EXISTENCE AT ALL!
And, yes, one person's EXPERIENCE is different from another's . . . EVEN OF ETERNAL SCRIPTURE . . . as we routinely observe on FR.