As a homeschool parent I would love to hear how you recommend we equip our kids regarding logic skills (we already study scripture and emphasize its authority). Since our own skills are weak, this can be a family learning opportunity. I appreciate the points you make about search engines. We are sadly unaware of how much authority we give away to technologies and the commercial enterprises that bring them to us. We have a lot of faith invested in them. My frustration also lies in suppression of truth, as in (for example) pharmaceutical companies doing research studies on their own products and declaring them safe. How are we to discern all this while just trying to live our lives?
This is a really good set of questions. Reading the great books is a good way to do it gradually. Through plot and character, contradictions of integrity and demonstrations of true dignity are revealed. There are also some works in logic appropriate to age and stage available today.
The Bible is the best book to read for discernment, bar none. But there are also the many who have meditated on it deeply for their whole lives and apply its truth.
I think we are to cultivate our own discernment, but part of that discernment will be in reading writers who possess it themselves and give us the 'eyes' to see things that we overlooked.
Advice: read great books and find good teachers who help you to read great books better.
As a homeschool parent I would love to hear how you recommend we equip our kids regarding logic skills (we already study scripture and emphasize its authority). Since our own skills are weak, this can be a family learning opportunity. I appreciate the points you make about search engines. We are sadly unaware of how much authority we give away to technologies and the commercial enterprises that bring them to us. We have a lot of faith invested in them. My frustration also lies in suppression of truth, as in (for example) pharmaceutical companies doing research studies on their own products and declaring them safe. How are we to discern all this while just trying to live our lives?
This is a really good set of questions. Reading the great books is a good way to do it gradually. Through plot and character, contradictions of integrity and demonstrations of true dignity are revealed. There are also some works in logic appropriate to age and stage available today.
The Bible is the best book to read for discernment, bar none. But there are also the many who have meditated on it deeply for their whole lives and apply its truth.
I think we are to cultivate our own discernment, but part of that discernment will be in reading writers who possess it themselves and give us the 'eyes' to see things that we overlooked.
Advice: read great books and find good teachers who help you to read great books better.