How can someone be sure they are a stream entrant?!

[Gabriel]

@Gillian

Can you define ‘faith follower’ and ‘dhamma follower’ please? Are they described in the EBTs?

Faith-Follower & Dhamma-Follower

It is mostly understood that stream-entry (sotāpatti) is the first level of an irreversible shift from being a wordling (puthujjana). Several passages have a different view and list two levels before that, namely the faith-follower (saddhānusārī) and the dhamma-follower (dhammānusārī). From the two the dhamma-follower is always ranked higher than the faith-follower. Defining the Faith- and Dhamma-Follower SN 48.12 - SN 48.17, SN 48.24 mention the two, but don’t mention a specific faith or teach…