What They Said

“The is the point at issue between Christianity and all forms of mysticism and rationalism.  The dignity of the Christian is that, unlike the heathen, he is not a law unto himself.  He is “under orders.”  He lives unto the King and submits to his authority.  It is the mark of Christianity that it is a revealed religion and that Christians, therefore, march to the orders from without.  By contrast, the mystic or rationalist, seeking the knowledge of God from within his own psyche, has confused himself with God and has therefore left himself with no authoritative touchstone of truth - in which case truth itself becomes a merely relative, individual matter.  God then becomes many different things, and “the history of mysticism only too clearly shows that he who begins by seeking God within himself may end by confusing himself with God.””

B.B Warfield