{
  "id": "MTOM-0038",
  "title": "Perception That We Are More Enlightened, More Spiritual Than Past Generations - Evolution",
  "slug": "perception-that-we-are-more-enlightened-more-spiritual-than-past-generations-evolution",
  "url": "https://ai-bible-commentary.com/modern-traditions-of-men/perception-that-we-are-more-enlightened-more-spiritual-than-past-generations-evolution/",
  "category": "Holy Spirit and Spiritual Gifts",
  "severity": "3",
  "summary": "Modern churches can mistake recency, polish, technology, therapy-language, and cultural acceptance for spiritual maturity. Scripture gives no promise that later generations are automatically wiser.",
  "diagnosis": "The biblical pattern repeatedly warns later generations not to forget, drift, boast, or call apostolic truth outdated.",
  "primary_scriptures": [
    "Jer 6:16",
    "1 Cor 10:11-12",
    "Jude 1:3",
    "Eccles 7:10",
    "2 Tim 3:1-5"
  ],
  "key_terms": [
    "chronological pride [assuming later means wiser]",
    "paradosis [handed-down teaching]",
    "apostasia [falling away]",
    "sophia [wisdom]"
  ],
  "related_slugs": [
    "the-spirit-blamed-for-disorder",
    "prophecy-used-to-bypass-scripture",
    "anointing-used-to-excuse-poor-doctrine",
    "tongues-practiced-publicly-without-interpretation",
    "healing-failure-blamed-on-the-sufferer",
    "deliverance-ministry-made-theatrical"
  ],
  "translation_tooltips": "NET Bible local tooltip data",
  "status": "published_package_draft"
}