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Originally Posted by aron

One thing that helped me was realizing that today's "old time religion" was at one point shockingly new. When Isaac Watts began freely paraphrasing the Psalms instead of translating them metrically, it opened up new melodic possibilities but it also upset the traditionalists. Some of current "reformed" groups still think Watts went too far! Most of today's traditionalists, of course, would think of Watts as the epitome of "the old time religion".

That also goes for Luther, Wesley, Edwards, etc. etc... at the time they were unconventional. Only with time did the new position and vision become accepted. For instance, in 1727, the "Old Lights" of Boston were bothered that the Holy Spirit could move in the hinterlands of the Connecticut River Valley, without their "fellowship"... Jonathan Edwards and the "New Lights" constantly had to reassure the "elders in Jerusalem" that they were still "one" with them, even as they attempted to follow the anointing Spirit, as it moved on the ground.

But at the time it was revolutionary, and began to sow the conceptual seeds of the American Revolution 50 years later. Every man a king, and free to follow his own dictates!?! Shocking! Independence? Freedom? Unheard of!

And let's not even get into Jesus, how unconventional, how revolutionary He was, in every way. Paradigms dissolved before Him like chaff in the wind.

Yes and as you may recall if you were around during the days of Lee, God Himself was directing him as the Minister of the Age to use the etymological method to unearth [recover] the deep truths and high peaks of God's Holy Word. Is God personally directing the modern linguists now? Or are they merely following "scientific" fallen human trends that are here today and gone tomorrow like all scientific paradigms that have gone before? Expect the LSM to back Lee's methods to the end. If they lose their MOTA they lose their Mojo.