THE WAY OF REASONING

Inductive reasoning is a bottom-up approach, while deductive reasoning is top-down. Inductive reasoning takes you from the specific inferences to the general, while in deductive reasoning; you make inferences by going from general premises to specific conclusions.

I think this becomes important as we try to explain difficult things like Scripture, spiritual concepts and mysteries of which we have no answers. Some forms of logic and reasoning work well sometimes and at others they do not. As examples: What happens when we die? How do two people become one? What does it mean to be born from above? These and many other subjects are approached from inductive and deductive processes. Truth and explanation can come from both. I sometimes think this helps when we talk and think in stacked layers while trying to process through things to get as much objectivity as possible. Our mind is like a scrapbook … Pieces put in at different times and places… to form the book, some pasted from the bottom up and some from the top down.

“Is this not the reason you are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God?” Jesus