Christian spirituality presupposes that we have been given the gift of eternal life and enjoy it now here on earth. No human teacher can teach us about that because no human teacher can give us eternal life. Nor can we gain eternal life for ourselves merely be reflecting on our experience of God, or even by interpreting the Scriptures in the light of our personal experience. In fact, if we attempt to gain eternal life with God through rational speculation and spiritual self-development, we will commit spiritual suicide. Those who use their reason and intellect to make a ladder for their devotional assent into heaven will, like Lucifer, plunge themselves into hell instead.
Grace upon Grace: p. 16
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