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Originally Posted by Jo S
This is it.
The danger with Mysticism is that it allows for subjectivity. You're taught to focus only on the "now" ie "What is the spirit speaking now". That's the type of thing you'll hear within mystic circles.
By just having an "in the now" type of spirituality, you can justify contradictions in teachings because in a sense what was spoken of in the past no longer matters, it's the fresh new teaching that matters.
It allows for ambiguity and makes doctrine malleable to whatever the current situation calls for.
Compare that to Christ where he always pointed back to what was spoken of in the past through the prophets in order to reconcile God's Word to the present situation.
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Originally Posted by SonstoGlory
My thought is you could label about anything that is toward the unseen as mysticism. By that definition, someone could label all Christians as mystics, as we practice faith in the unseen.
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So considering the above two quotes (by Jo and me) isn't what we're talking about for the proper Christian walk a mix of spirit and the word? If we just have the word without Spirit, then it can be just the dead letter. If just spirit without the word, then we have mysticism - is that a correct view?
I'm seeing this as a spectrum, whereby there is danger of falling into either extreme.