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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.
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And we would see "later Nee" and "later Lee" flatly contradict the early models, but, hey, it's today's oracular utterance. One now-Blended called it "fresh bread". He'd say, "We've got the fresh bread." (That brother is currently on LSM payroll, and wife, and children.)
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Originally Posted by Jo S
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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Christ was fully constrained by Scripture: "It is written". Lee was so deluded by his mysticism that he often panned scripture as fallen human concepts. Only the Psalms cited by the NT passed his muster: e.g., 2, 8, 16... the others, 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12.... were "fallen". Completely absurd. Yet there I was, pumping my fist and yelling in sync.
Contrast how Christ allowed himself to be defined by scripture, versus how Lee allowed scripture to be defined by exigencies. Mysticism gave him a pass, to redefine the word for today, and allowed him to slide it on others. We really thought it was "the divine and mystical realm." I bought the book. We used to sing/chant, "reality, reality, reality" as if that transposed us into reality itself and our subjectivity swallowed objective truth. But it did not.
But Christ was the Word. Only his mysticism was true. The rest of us are automatically suspect. To me, this is Christianity 101. If you look at the list of names I put in the second-to-last paragraph in post #109, they all failed Christianity 101. They all thought they could define the word, instead of being defined by it.