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| Eric Gilmour - christian mystic |
Is Mysticism a Christian practice?
1. The experience of
mystical union or direct communion with ultimate reality reported by mystics.
2. The belief that direct
knowledge of God, spiritual truth, or ultimate reality can be attained through
subjective* experience (as intuition* or insight).
3. Vague speculation: a
belief without sound basis. A theory postulating* the possibility of direct and
intuitive* acquisition* of ineffable* knowledge or power.
*subjective
1.philosophy: relating to
the way a person experiences things in his or her own mind, based on feelings
or opinions rather than facts.
*intuition/intuitive
1.having the ability to know or understand things without any proof or evidence.
*postulate
1.suggest or
assume the existence, fact, or truth of (something) as a basis for reasoning,
discussion, or belief.
*acquisition
1. the act of
acquiring or something or someone acquired or gained.
*ineffable
1.incapable of
being expressed in words.
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Subjective or Objective?
We must base our Christianity on objective truth of who
Jesus is, and who Jesus is to us.
Our Faith is only as good
as the object in which it is placed...and a life of living Trust in Jesus is
well placed faith. Faith doesn't need to be seen with our eyes or proven by a
mystical feeling...Faith is the assurance and trust in the unseen. Hebrews 11
The Christian faith is not
true because it works; it works because it is true. It is not true because we
experience it; we experience it—deeply and gloriously—because it is true.
Objective truth is proven
in the pages of God's Divinely inspired Word, which is the only repository of redemptive revelation.
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View this short video (with mystic - Eric Gilmour).
We need to recognize that 'Christian mystics' distract from the true Gospel of Jesus as they point to
practices taught by the philosophies
of men, rather than what is clearly taught by Jesus and His disciples.
I encourage you not to take my word for it, but to search the Scriptures as the Bereans did. And look to see if Jesus taught what Eric Gilmour is talking about. As a matter of fact, Eric does not
reference anything truly Biblical in this video, for the most part he only quotes other
mystics. It may sound well and good and very pious, but this is a very dangerous teaching.
Colossians 2:6-8 So then,
just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live your lives in him,
rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and
overflowing with thankfulness. See to it that no one takes you captive through
hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the
elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.
Colossians 2: 18-23 Do not
let anyone who delights in false humility and the worship of angels disqualify
you. Such a person also goes into great detail about what they have seen; they
are puffed up with idle notions by their unspiritual mind. They have lost
connection with the head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together
by its ligaments and sinews, grows as God causes it to grow. Since you died
with Christ to the elemental spiritual forces of this world, why, as though you
still belonged to the world, do you submit to its rules: “Do not handle! Do not
taste! Do not touch!”? These rules, which have to do with things that are all
destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings.
Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed
worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they
lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.
I share in the Apostle Paul's heart, and he sums this up so beautifully... "and remember that for three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears."
Acts 20:28-31 Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock, among which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to shepherd the church of God which He purchased with His own blood. For I know this, that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock. Also from among yourselves men will rise up, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after themselves. Therefore watch, and remember that for three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.
