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Scripture, and apart from this divine revelation we knownothing certain about God. What Talbot is describing is thepagan mysticism that foolishly and blindly tries to“experience” and “know” God directly apart from doctrine.Talbot says:“So it is true that no one comes to the Father except throughJesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life. But the mystics ofother faiths also share the Ultimate paradox that constitutesthis way. In this we find great compliment and commonground, while also believing in the uniqueness, and completionof all else in Jesus” (“e Many Paths of Religion, and the OneGod of Faith,” part 2).is is interfaith mystical gobblygook. In fact, the mysticsof other faiths share nothing with us and know nothing aboutGod, and I say that on the authority of the divine revelationgiven to John the “apostle of love.”“And we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth inwickedness. And we know that the Son of God is come, andhath given us an understanding, that we may know him that istrue, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son JesusChrist. is is the true God, and eternal life. Little children,keep yourselves from idols. Amen” (1 John 5:19-21).Talbot recommends Pierre Teilhard, who taught evolutionand the deification of man and denied that the Jesus of theBible is the only Christ. Talbot says, “Teilhard de Chardinbroke yet new ground with his Cosmic Christ, and ar e v o l u t i o n a r y m a r r i a g e b e t w e e n s c i e n c e a n dmysticism” (Come to the Quiet, p. 95).Talbot’s “contemplative” practices include prayers to Rome’smythical Mary. In his book Simplicity he says:“Personally, I have found praying the Rosary to be one of themost powerful tools I possess in obtaining simple, childlikemeditation on the life of Jesus Christ.”e Rosary is largely a prayer to Mary as the Queen ofHeaven. In 1984 Talbot said:363