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It seems like there was a time that despite the absence of modernity that folks were able to think in a more concise and applicable manner. They knew how to go through arguments and propositions and analyze and draw conclusions in a more practical way. And they knew how to present arguments or proposals or counter arguments in a cognent and well laid out form. They may have been better at writing papers etc. and articulating verbal propositions and replies because their thinking was more clear. I'm not saying at all that the inspiration and revelation of the Holy Spirit should not assist and guide us and be the number one thing that Christians rely upon. Yet the use of LOGIC is not what it once was. Why are so many arguments unclear and choppy etc? Perhaps we have left the disiciplne needed to form clear conclusions along with the proper way to lay these arguments out. I guess. I'm not trying to label everyone in one broad brush. So many of the older theologians and writers are impressive because of the way they thought and the impressive way they laid out their arguments and conclusions. This in spite of the fact that they had no internet to go to or no TV and maybe few available encyclopedias etc. They didn't use store bought pens and pencils to write and had no electrical lights but they thought clearly. Yet I'm not saying all modern writers and expressions of Christian thought are bad. Surely they are many who are apt at this today. Maybe I just need or desire more training but in the older times even if you weren't a Christian minster you were trained in logic. I'm 100% all in for the assistance of the Holy Spirit but so much is missing from the way modern man ascertains truth or supposedly ascertains truth. Maybe it's because the Holy Spirit is the last thing they rely upon. Yet how can it be said with certainty that if you are trained in logic that you can't likewise be anointed by the Holy Spirit? That may be itself a result of faulty logical thinking. I mean this as food for thought and not a blanket one size fits all repudiation.
