Sophisticated mystical doctrine
The emotional anger, the mocking, the inability to intellectually grasp apostolic biblical doctrine (that is, the real thing, five solas, doctrines of grace, Classical Covenant - Federal - Theology, which is merely biblical doctrine unwatered-down, un-negotiated down to the demands of fallen man) is interesting when you see it as the inability of vain, prideful worldlings to understand sophisticated mystical doctrine.
Yes: sophisticated mystical doctrine. On-the-mark Christian doctrine is sophisticated mystical doctrine.
Internal reorientation from being man-centered to being God-centered; acting from God's will rather than from self-will; connecting with what is above and negotiating the battlefield that having the Spirit in us puts us on. This is all mystical experience. Real mystical experience. Holding in balance and tension, in humble and grateful and submissive poise the grace of higher understanding of such things as God's sovereignty and man's responsibility and God's drawing, and awakening. Being created at a level we've fallen from, and being drawn back up through higher will. Gratitude over resentment in all things. These are not worldly matters. These are the matter of sophisticated mystical doctrine. Real mystical doctrine.
Ironically atheists and similar shallow and savage defenders of worldly doctrines would claim ownership of 'mystical teachings' (maybe not the militant materialists, but scratch them slightly and beneath the surface you'll find it) while all the while rejecting (and unable to see, or unwilling to see) the real thing.
In their loud shallowness they reject the only real and most truly sophisticated mystical teaching available to man.
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"Yes: sophisticated mystical doctrine. On-the-mark Christian doctrine is sophisticated mystical doctrine." (C.T.)
So, in other words, you are making a weak attempt at being a Gnostic. Calvinism does appropriate certain aspects of Gnosticism, but always the more worthless ones: a type of docetism in which Jesus' flesh is different from our own, predestination. But Gnosticism is way more nuanced, more "sophisticated" and "mystical." I don't mean by that that I agree with it. I mean merely that if you are looking for a sophisticated mystical version of Christianity, you would be better served with reading Ireneaus' and Origen's refutation of the Valentinians, and trying to reconstruct that system, because Calvinism is as unsophisticated as it comes. PELAGIANISM is sophisticed and mystical in comparison to Calvinism. Yet Pelagianism is as simple as it gets, and I am not ashamed to label myself a Pelagian.
The post says what I mean by mystical. Exactly what your inner fallen nature - your vanity, worldly pride, and self-will - rebels against.
Your definition of mystical is Gnostic.
I'm playing with the word mystical. I'm being ironic. I'm also making the point that there is real truth in the fact that apostolic biblical doctrine, the hard truths, when accepted at their level, effect real development and create real states that the world tends to only have the category 'mystical' to understand.
You could learn from people, beowulf. You just need to calm down and stop accusing and stop thinking you know what is going on all the time.
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