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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
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.
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StG, it isn't a matter of finding proper balance. Mysticism and Christianity are antithetical to each other. These are two different spirits at work. It's not the same spirit + or - scriptural understanding. You can't have the Holy Spirit and not understand scripture and you can't understand scripture without the Holy Spirit.
Kabbalism (or Jewish mysticism) was wrought out of this same situation we find in today within a large part of Christendom.
The mystic Jews separated themselves from traditional Judaism because they viewed the other side as being too "scholarly" meaning overly focused on the academic study of scriptures rather than the experience of the spiritual realm. But the truth was that they were divided against each other because both sides rejected their savior.