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Originally Posted by aron

I didn't miss it at all. But look at the context. Christ... our Maker... is just a prop, a foil. The focus is on "you and I", the Christian.... either struggling, or relaxing. The focus is on you, who are but dust and ashes, and even worse, it is on your "experience", which is even less tenable. And for the benefit of our friends from the LC who might be lurking, I add that that is Watchman Nee's MO. Focus on the mystical indwelling Christ. Enjoy him! Meanwhile, gross sin is tolerated and covered.

What surprises me is that you don´t give any indication that you have read Thomas´s book, yet you position yourself with full assurance as if you had, just after reading a few quotes from the book. There is something wrong with that. Why do you do that?

Originally Posted by aron

But you don't see Christ in his experience and enjoyment of the Father in heaven getting led down the primrose path of "mystical experience". No, he was guided by the word, a sure peg. And, as I repeated, and perhaps you missed, his experience was to be a template for ours. "Even as I obey the Father's commands, so you also must obey mine". Don't you think there's a relationship there, worth focusing on?

Yes we do see Christ talking about His experience and enjoyment of the Father, and no it does not mean that it was a "primrose path of mystical experience." He does not talk solely about that aspect, all the time, correct...so? But He does talk about it, and we can surely talk about that aspect of truth and expeirnece too. Nowhere does it say that when we share about a certain aspect of the truth that we have to talk about all aspects of truth or in a certain order of importance.