We can define creative thinking as the ability to invent original ideas for accomplishing goals. The source of creative thinking is our imagination. This is a faculty of mind given by God, which He expects us to use. Guidance from God often comes through the application of our own mental faculties. Why are we not better at creative thinking? Laziness Thinking is hard work. Creative thinking is hardest of all. Just ask a novelist. Most will tell you they only write three or four hours a day because it is too exhausting. theology about guidance Christians sometimes have wrong concepts about the mind. They wait for God to give divine revelation, while God waits for them to use the faculties He gave them. Result: Nobody is moving and nothing gets accomplished. Repression of creative faculties A high school teacher put a small dot on the blackboard. Then he asked the class what it was. The students all agreed that is was nothing but a dot of chalk on the blackboard. The teacher replied, “I did the same exercise yesterday with a group of children. One thought it was an insect egg or perhaps a bird’s eye. Another thought it was the head of a bald man seen from an airplane.” Why the difference? In the years between kindergarten and high school students were discarding their imagination. Why? Because they were learning to be about things, learning the “specific” “right answers” and learning what is “realistic.” Absorbing facts is not the same as exercising the mind. In some countries, the education system is based on rote memorization. Students write down verbatim what the teacher says, then copy it neatly into a notebook at home. This is supposed to be education. It is not education. It is brainwashing. Fear of failure or ridicule
We can define creative thinking as the ability to invent original ideas for accomplishing goals. The source of creative thinking is our imagination. This is a faculty of mind given by God, which He expects us to use. Guidance from God often comes through the application of our own mental faculties. Why are we not better at creative thinking? Laziness Thinking is hard work. Creative thinking is hardest of all. Just ask a novelist. Most will tell you they only write three or four hours a day because it is too exhausting. theology about guidance Christians sometimes have wrong concepts about the mind. They wait for God to give divine revelation, while God waits for them to use the faculties He gave them. Result: Nobody is moving and nothing gets accomplished. Repression of creative faculties A high school teacher put a small dot on the blackboard. Then he asked the class what it was. The students all agreed that is was nothing but a dot of chalk on the blackboard. The teacher replied, “I did the same exercise yesterday with a group of children. One thought it was an insect egg or perhaps a bird’s eye. Another thought it was the head of a bald man seen from an airplane.” Why the difference? In the years between kindergarten and high school students were discarding their imagination. Why? Because they were learning to be “specific” about things, learning the “right answers” and learning what is “realistic.” Absorbing facts is not the same as exercising the mind. In some countries, the education system is based on rote memorization. Students write down verbatim what the teacher says, then copy it neatly into a notebook at home. This is supposed to be education. It is not education. It is brainwashing. Fear of failure or ridicule
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