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To: maryz
Mysticism, properly speaking, is a consolation, a direct experience of God.

And how does one know what god they are having contact with?

This is eastern mysticism that you defend.. a mystical meeting with god.

The god of this world loves the deception..at least he is god to someone

"now I realize what we all are. And if only everyone could realize this! I suddenly saw all the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God's eyes. If only they could or see themselves as they really are. If only we could see each other that way all the time. There would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed… I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other."
Thomas Merton /Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

This is not Christianity it is Pantheism

8,280 posted on 10/02/2010 5:56:51 PM PDT by RnMomof7
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To: RnMomof7
And how does one know what god they are having contact with?

How did Moses and St. Paul know?

8,281 posted on 10/02/2010 5:59:20 PM PDT by maryz
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To: RnMomof7

I see it’s not only the Bible you’re apparently incapable of understanding.


8,282 posted on 10/02/2010 6:00:47 PM PDT by maryz
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To: RnMomof7

I see it’s not only the Bible you’re apparently incapable of understanding.


8,283 posted on 10/02/2010 6:00:46 PM PDT by maryz
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To: RnMomof7
This is not Christianity it is Pantheism

The only polytheism that I have read about on this thread is what you have published as to your beliefs.

8,335 posted on 10/03/2010 10:51:54 AM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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